ABSTRACT
George Gemisttos’ Reply in Support of Latins is directed against the work of John Argyropoulos, whom he knew well from the Council of Florence. According to Gemistos, his views are supported by various saints and theologians. Gemistos complains that the manner by which the Council of Florence achieved the Union of the Eastern and Western Church was not fair: ‘because in Italy, when ours concluded the Union, they were not defeated by arguments to conclude it, but we know how the Union was concluded’. The contemporaries of Gemistos are, in his eyes, guilty of the second type of atheism that he systematically criticized since his very first works. The treatise about the procession of the Holy Spirit is very difficult to put into the context of Gemistos’ other writings. As Syropoulos relates, Gemistos said more to the patriarch in a similar manner about the procession of the Holy Spirit in order to reassure him about the position of the Eastern Church.
