Download or read book History from the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Constantinople written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Church History From the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Constantinople written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Christian Councils written by Karl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Christian Councils From the Original Documents to the Close of the Council of Nicaea A D 325 written by bp. Charles Joseph Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the First Council of Nice written by Dean Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ written by John Anthony McGuckin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who do you say that I am?" This question that Jesus asked of his disciples, so central to his mission, became equally central to the fledgling church. How would it respond to the Gnostics who answered by saying Jesus was less than fully human? How would it respond to the Arians who contended he was less than fully God? It was these challenges that ultimately provoked the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. In this volume covering the first half of the article in the Nicene Creed on God the Son, John Anthony McGuckin shows how it countered these two errant poles by equally stressing Jesus' authentic humanity (that is, his fleshliness and real embodiment in space and time) and his spiritual glory or full divinity. One cottage industry among some historical theologians, he notes, has been to live in a fever of conspiracy theory where orthodox oppressors dealt heavy-handedly with poor heretics. Or the picture is painted of ancient grassroots inclusivists being suppressed by establishment elites. The reality was far from such romantic notions. It was in fact the reverse. The church who denounced these errors did so in the name of a greater inclusivity based on common sense and common education. The debate was conducted generations before Christian bishops could ever call on the assistance of secular power to enforce their views. Establishing the creeds was not a reactionary movement of censorship but rather one concerned with the deepest aspects of quality control. Ultimately, what was and is at stake is not fussy dogmatism but the central gospel message of God's stooping "down in mercy to enter the life of his creatures and share their sorrows with them. He has lifted up the weak and the broken to himself, and he healed their pain by abolishing their alienation."
Download or read book A History of the Councils of the Church written by Karl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Councils of the Church To the close of the Council of Nicea A D 325 tr from the German and ed by William R Clark written by Karl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 381 AD written by Charles Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of the Godhead; all other interpretations were now declared heretical. Moreover, for the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization, free thought was unambiguously suppressed. Not since the attempt of the pharaoh Akhenaten to impose his god Aten on his Egyptian subjects in the fourteenth century BC had there been such a widesweeping programme of religious coercion. Yet surprisingly this political revolution, intended to bring inner cohesion to an empire under threat from the outside, has been airbrushed from historical record. Instead, it has been claimed that the Christian Church had reached a consensus on the Trinity which was promulgated at the Council of Constantinople in 381." "In this groundbreaking new book, acclaimed historian Charles Freeman shows that the council was a shambolic affair which only took place after Theodosius' decree had become law. In short, the Church was aquiescing in the overwhelming power of the emperor. Freeman argues that Theodosius' edict and the subsequent suppression of paganism not only brought an end to the diversity of religious and philosophical beliefs throughout the empire, but created numerous theological problems for the Church, which have remained unsolved. The year AD 381, Freeman concludes, marked 'a turning point that time forgot'."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils Ad 431 451 written by Mark S. Smith and published by Oxford Early Christian Studies. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The First Seven Ecumenical Councils 325 787 written by Leo D. Davis and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A History of the Councils of the Church To the close of the Council of Nicea A D 325 written by Karl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the First Council of Nice written by Dean Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Church History From the Council of Nicaea to that of Constantinople A D 381 written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Council of Nice written by Dean Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Councils of the Church from the Original Documents A D 626 to the close of the Second Council of Nicaea A D 787 written by Karl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Christian Councils written by Carl Joseph von Hefele and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
