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cz30pr79d4w	Charles C. Yost	The Thought and Ministry of a "Unionist Priest" (ἑνωτικὸς ἱερεύς): John Plousiadenos (†1500), the Council of Florence, and the Tradition of Byzantine Unionism	2019		.txt	text/plain	381	11	26	This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the unionists: medieval Greek Christians who were united to the Roman Church and urged their countrymen to do likewise through the lens provided by the life and writings of the still poorly-known Cretan polymath and priest John Plousiadenos (c. 1426-1500), a theologian, pastor, and defender of the union between the Greek and Latin Churches proclaimed at the Council of Florence (1439).Because of his unionist convictions, John was reviled by his own countrymen as a Λατινόφρων (Latin-minded). This dissertation strives to understand the unionist perspective on its own terms—rather than those of its contemporary or modern critics—through the investigation of the pastoral and polemical theology of John Plousiadenos: one of the final, and most outstanding, representatives of the Byzantine tradition of unionism.	cache/cz30pr79d4w.txt	txt/cz30pr79d4w.txt