A History of the Christian Councils, from the Original Documents: To the close of the Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325
Author: Karl Joseph von Hefele
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 540
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karl Joseph von Hefele
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 534
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leo D. Davis
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0814683819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique work - no other work yet available in English treats this subject - illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs. It then shows how their legacies lingered throughout the centuries to inspire - or haunt - every generation.
Author: Charles Joseph Hefele
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-03-08
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 3382128608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: Joseph F. Kelly
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0814657036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There have been twenty-one universal gatherings 'ecumenical councils' of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of many ring out in the history of the church: Nicea, Chalcedon, Trent, Vatican II. Though centuries separate the councils, each occurred when the church faced serious crises, sometimes with doctrinal matters, sometimes with moral or even political matters, and sometimes with discerning the church's relation to the world. The councils determined much of what the Catholic Church is and believes. Additionally, many councils impacted believers in other Christian traditions and even in other faiths. In this accessible, readable, and yet substantial account of the councils Joseph Kelly provides both the historical context for each council as well as an account of its proceedings. Readers will discover how the councils shaped the debate for the following decades and even centuries, and will appreciate the occasional portraits of important conciliar figures from Emperor Constantine to Pope John XXIII.
Author: Mark S. Smith
Publisher: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0198835272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic driving--and unsettling--the conciliar activity of these decades. Mark S. Smith identifies a set of inherited assumptions concerning the role that Nicaea was expected to play in orthodox discourse--namely, that it possessed unique authority as a conciliar event, and sole sufficiency as a credal statement. The fundamental dilemma was thus how such shibboleths could be persuasively reaffirmed in the context of a dispute over Christological doctrine that the resources of the Nicene Creed were inadequate to address, and how the convening of new oecumenical councils could avoid fatally undermining Nicaea's special status. Smith examines the articulation of these contested ideas of 'Nicaea' at the councils of Ephesus I (431), Constantinople (448), Ephesus II (449), and Chalcedon (451). Particular attention is paid to the role of conciliar acta in providing carefully-shaped written contexts within which the Nicene Creed could be read and interpreted. This study proposes that the capacity of the idea of 'Nicaea' for flexible re-expression was a source of opportunity as well as a cause of strife, allowing continuity with the past to be asserted precisely through adaptation and modification, and opening up significant new paths for the articulation of credal and conciliar authority. The work thus combines a detailed historical analysis of the reception of Nicaea in the proceedings of the fifth-century councils, with an examination of the complex delineation of theological 'orthodoxy' in this period. It also reflects more widely on questions of doctrinal development and ecclesial reception in the early church.
Author: Karl Joseph von Hefele
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 554
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 536
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