ABSTRACT
Nowhere does this appear more clearly than in the two religious negotiations undertaken by these two great Christian confessions. The first was the exchange of letters carried out in the years 1574-1581 between a group of theologians affiliated with the University of Tubingen (Jakob Heerbrand, Jakob Andreae, Martin Crusius and others) and the Patriarchate in Constantinople under Jeremiah II.3 The second was the exchange of letters between a group of dissident Anglican bishops and theologians - known as the 'Nonjurors' - and the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Jerusalem in the years 1716-25.4 The term 'religious negotiation' constitutes no doubt an exaggeration of some sort — the participants never met, in both cases exchanging more or less formal letters. Many negative factors weighed heavily on these exchanges: the non-representative status of both the Tubingen and the Anglican group and the manifest weaknesses in theological doctrine and scholarship which plagued the Patriarchate in Constantinople, to name but a few.
