Brownworth identifies the iconoclastic controversy — which declared religious art synonymous with idolatry — as the event that drove the first real wedge between the Eastern and Western churches, poisoning relations and opening the floodgates of excommunications and counter-excommunications.
What each episode says
Episode 11 (1 mention)
“to it, distracted as they were by the iconoclastic controversy.”
Episode 12 (1 mention)
“The iconoclastic controversy,”
Episode 17 (1 mention)
Brownworth identifies the iconoclastic controversy — which declared religious art synonymous with idolatry — as the event that drove the first real wedge between the Eastern and Western churches, poisoning relations and opening the floodgates of excommunications and counter-excommunications.
“200 years later the iconoclastic controversy”