Npnf2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils

By Schaff, Philip

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Title:	Npnf2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Author:	Schaff, Philip
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Religion and Christian Theology Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: In preparing the other division of the book, that is to say, the Introduction and Notes, I have been guided by the same considerations. Here will be found no new and brilliant guesses of my own, but a collection of the most reliable conclusions of the most weighty critics and commentators. Where the notes are of any length I have traced the source and given the exact reference, but for the brief notes, where I have not thought this necessary, the reader may feel the greatest confidence that he is not reading any surmises of mine, but that in every particular what he reads rests upon the authority of the greatest names who have written on the subject. In the bibliographical table already referred to I have placed the authorities most frequently cited. I think it necessary to make a few remarks upon the rule which I have laid down for myself with regard to my attitude on controverted questions bearing upon doctrine or ecclesiastical discipline. It seems to me that in such a work as the present any expression of the editor?s views would be eminently out of place. I have therefore confined myself to a bare statement of what I conceive to be the facts of the case, and have left the reader to draw from them what conclusions he pleases. I hope that this volume may be equally acceptable to the Catholic and to the Protestant, to the Eastern and to the Western, and while I naturally think that the facts presented are clearly in accordance with my own views, I hope that those who draw from the same premises different conclusions will find these premises stated to their satisfaction in the following pages. And should such be the case this volume may well be a step toward ?the union of all? and toward ?the peace of all the holy churches of God,? for which the unchanging East has so constantly prayed in her liturgy.

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