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Author: Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780809140190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA succinct, up-to-date and chronological history of the 21 general councils, along with their major tasks, achievements and failures and their impact on their times.
Author: Joseph F. Kelly
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0814657036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere 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: Henry Robert Percival
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0300135297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical councils from A.D. 325 to 553, in which participants gave authority to doctrinal choices by majority vote. The author investigates the sometimes astonishing bloodshed and violence that marked the background to church council proceedings, and from there goes on to describe the planning and staging of councils, the emperors' role, the routines of debate, the participants' understanding of the issues, and their views on God's intervention in their activities. He concludes with a look at the significance of the councils and their doctrinal decisions within the history of Christendom.
Author: Norman P. Tanner
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this remarkably clear text, Tanner offers the results of years of intensive study and teaching of the ecumenical councils, provides a comprehensive history of councilor teaching, extending from the early and medieval councils to the Second Vatican Council.
Author: Mark S. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0198835272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the role of the reception of the Council of Nicaea (325) in the major councils of the mid-fifth century.
Author: Leo D. Davis
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0814683819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Gerald Christianson
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0813215277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Church, the Councils, and Reform brings together leading authorities in the field of church history to reflect on the importance of the late medieval councils. This is the first book in English to consider the lasting significance of the period from Constance to Trent (1414-1563) when several councils met to heal the Great Schism (1378) and reform the church.
Author: Thomas Graumann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0198868170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions. It traces the processes of their production, starting from the recording of spoken interventions during a meeting, to the preparation of minutes of individual sessions, to their collection into larger units, their storage and the earliest attempts at their dissemination. Thomas Graumann demonstrates that the preparation of 'paperwork' is central for the bishops' self-presentation and the projection of prevailing conciliar ideologies. The councils' aspirations to legitimacy and authority before real and imagined audiences of the wider church and the empire, and for posterity, fundamentally reside in the relevant textual and bureaucratic processes. Council leaders and administrators also scrutinized and inspected documents and records of previous occasions. From the evidence of such examinations the volume further reconstructs the textual and physical characteristics of ancient conciliar documents and explores the criteria of their assessment. Reading strategies prompted by the features observed from material textual objects handled in council, and the opportunities and limits afforded by the techniques of 'writing-up' conciliar business are analysed. Papyrological evidence and contemporary legal regulations are used to contextualise these efforts. The book thus offers a unique assessment of the production processes, character and the material conditions of council acts that must be the foundation for any historical and theological research into the councils of the ancient church.
Author: Bruce Leon Shelley
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780849938610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of the Church, focusing on the motivations of its founders, conflicts, key figures, and defining events over the centuries.
