Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History on this episode.

We are going to look at what was trending in the 11th century.

Well, we have to start with that big event. It's right in the middle of the century,

1054, and the great schism, the split between the church and the east and the church in the west.

This all comes down to a little phrase, filioque, and the sun.

A phrase that was added by bishops in the west to the Nicene Creed.

The bishops in the east rejected this phrase, thought that the western bishops were tinkering

with these great creeds of the faith and used that as a reason to split.

It was sort of like the iceberg, you know.

The filioque clause was just simply what was above the surface.

Beneath the surface, well, there was a lot going on that went into the split.

Two different cultures, two different languages, they had two different approaches, two theology.

They had two different liturgies.

They were for all intents and purposes split long before the split.

But there it is. The filioque controversy, 1054, and the great schism.

Well, also trending in the 11th century is King Edward the Confessor.

King Edward the Confessor was the son of Ethel Red, the unready.

Ethel Red means well advised.

Unready doesn't necessarily mean unprepared.

It really means poor advise. So his name was a little bit of a pun.

Well advised, poor advised.

Well, good old Ethel Red the unready, died in 1016.

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