The Seven Ecumenical Councils

By Schaff, Philip

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Title:	The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Author:	Schaff, Philip
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Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy, Theology, Literature
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Preface: The work intrusted to me of preparing this volume evidently can be divided into two separate parts. The first, the collecting of the material needed and the setting of it before the reader in the English tongue; the other, the preparation of suitable introductions and notes to the matter thus provided. Now in each of these departments two courses were open to the editor: the one, to be original; the other, to be a copyist. I need hardly say that of these the former offered many temptations. But I could not fail to recognize the fact that such a course would greatly take from the real value of the work, and therefore without any hesitation I have adopted the other alternative, and have endeavoured, so far as was at all possible, to keep myself out of the question altogether; and as a general rule even the translation of the text (as distinguished from the notes) is not mine but that of some scholar of well-established reputation.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Pages.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Preface.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3 General Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6 Method of Treatment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6 Concerning Ecumenical Councils in General.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7 The Number of Ecumenical Synods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10 Bibliographical Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12 Appended Note on the Eastern Editions of Synodical Literature.. . . . . . . p. 18 Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18 p. 18 Bibliograficeskij Ukazatel' Pecatnyh Izdanij Apostol'skih I Sobornyh Pravil Na Slavjanskom I Russkom Jazykah.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21 A Bibliographical Index of the Printed Editions of the Canons of the Apostles and of the Councils in the Slavonic and Russian Languages.. . . . . . . . p. 24 Excursus on the History of the Roman Law and Its Relation to the Canon Law.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Historical Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 The Nicene Creed.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33 Excursus on the Word Homousios.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34 Excursus on the Words .?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 p. 38 The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38 Excursus on the Use of the Word ?Canon.?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40 Canon II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 41 Canon III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 43 Canon IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 44 Canon V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46 Excursus on the Word .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 47 Canon VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 48 p. 50 Excursus on the Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome Over the Suburbican Churches.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canon VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52