It was also a cultural issue, as the culture of the West remained more Latin while the East became more Greek. Language incomprehension led to more cultural dissonance. It makes me wonder, if the language wasn’t such a big barrier, would the split still had occurred only on the basis of authoritative struggle and differences in religious practices? It also makes me grasp its connection to Filioque. The linguistic differences associated with the Estrangement of the East and West Christendom contributed to conceptual variation that eventually drifted to the misunderstanding of the Filioque. Filioque controversy was one of the biggest issues in terms of doctrine. In this, the Eastern Church objected to the Western church saying
