The Acts Of Early Church Councils Acts

Author : Thomas Graumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198868170

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The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts by Thomas Graumann Pdf

The 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 : Richard Price,Mary Whitby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846316487

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Chalcedon in Context by Richard Price,Mary Whitby Pdf

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries, as theological division, political rivalry, and sectarian violence produced a schism that persists to this day between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches. The Acts of the Councils are one of the largest collections of source materials relating to the Church of Late Antiquity and its state relations, and this volume places the acclaimed translation in context with the Council of Chalcedon of 451, ultimately informing historians on how to approach manifold aspects of these documents.

Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861078

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The Acts of the Apostles by P.D. James Pdf

Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils by Anonim Pdf

In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, the Third Council of Constantinople from 680–681 and finally, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. These seven events represented an attempt by Church leaders to reach an orthodox consensus, restore peace and develop a unified Christendom. Among Eastern Christians the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Church of the East (Assyrian) churches and among Western Christians the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Utrecht and Polish National Old Catholic, and some Scandinavian Lutheran churches all trace the legitimacy of their clergy by apostolic succession back to this period and beyond, to the earlier period referred to as the Early Church. This era begins with the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, convened by the emperor Constantine I following his victory over Licinius and consolidation of his reign over the Roman Empire. Nicaea I enunciated the Nicene Creed that in its original form and as modified by the First Council of Constantinople of 381 was seen by all later councils as the touchstone of orthodoxy on the doctrine of the Trinity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610250757

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NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725200760

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Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity by Martin Hengel Pdf

Hengel...here marshals a vast body of learning to illuminate brilliantly a few specific questions about the New Testament.... For anyone who has read much in contemporary European New Testament scholarship, this wise little book will come as a tonic. And for the beginning adult student of the New Testament, the book will serve as an excellent introduction to the question of historicity in early Christian writings. 'Review for Religious' The book is extremely well written and gives evidence of an astonishing command of ancient literature. 'Journal of the American Academy of Religion'

Author : Henry R. Percival
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666733631

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church by Henry R. Percival Pdf

Author : Richard Price,Michael Gaddis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015063253127

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The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon by Richard Price,Michael Gaddis Pdf

In 451 CE the Council of Chalcedon was called to assert the preeminence of orthodox Catholic doctrine against the heresy of men who refused what we now refer to as the Definition of Faith, or the belief in Jesus Christ as both man and divine spirit during his lifetime. This book is suitable for scholars studying this period.

Author : Kenneth Whitehead
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681493664

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One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic by Kenneth Whitehead Pdf

Very often in the history of Christianity, "reformers", by whatever name, have aspired to return to "the early Church". The Church of their own day, for whatever reason, fails to live up to what they think Christianity should be: in their view there has been a falling away from the beautiful ideals of the early Church. Kenneth Whitehead shows in this book how the early Church has, in fact, not disappeared, but rather has survived and persisted, and is with us still. "Reformers" are not so much the ones needed by this Church as are those who aspire to be saints-to follow Christ seriously and always to fulfill God's holy will by employing the means of sanctification which Christ continues to provide in the Church. Whitehead shows how the visible body which today bears the name "the Catholic Church" is the same Church which Christ established to carry on and perpetuate in the world his Words and his Works-and his own divine Life-and to bring salvation and sanctification to all mankind. Despite superficial differences in certain appearances, the worldwide Catholic Church today remains the same Church that was originally founded by Jesus Christ on Peter and the other apostles back in the first century in the ancient Near East. The early Church, in other words, was always!-nothing else but-the Catholic Church.

Author : Gordon Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0899859712

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ACTS of the Early Church by Gordon Lindsay Pdf

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009449557

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Early Christianity in Alexandria by M. David Litwa Pdf

Utilizing the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings, this book explores the earliest development of Christianity in Alexandria.

Author : Richard Price,Thomas Graumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1789621488

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The Council of Ephesus of 431 by Richard Price,Thomas Graumann Pdf

The First Council of Ephesus (431) was the climax of the so-called Nestorian Controversy. Convoked by the emperor Theodosius II to restore peace to the Church, it immediately divided into two rival councils, both meeting at Ephesus. Attempts by the emperor's representatives to get the bishops on both sides to meet together had no success, and after four months the council was dissolved without having ever properly met. But a number of decrees by the larger of the two rival councils, in particular the condemnation of Nestorius of Constantinople, were subsequently accepted as the valid decrees of the 'ecumenical council of Ephesus'. The documentation, consisting of conciliar proceedings, letters and other documents, provides information not only about events in Ephesus itself, but also about lobbying and public demonstrations in Constantinople. There is no episode in late Roman history where we are so well informed about how politics were conducted in the imperial capital. This makes the Acts a document of first importance for the history of the Later Roman Empire as well for that of the Church.

Author : Karl Joseph von Hefele,Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Councils and synods
ISBN : NLS:B000600844

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A History of the Councils of the Church by Karl Joseph von Hefele,Henry Nutcombe Oxenham Pdf

Author : Charles Joseph Hefele
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 2504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352478

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A History of the Councils of the Church by Charles Joseph Hefele Pdf

Karl Hefele's 'Conciliengeschichte' was one of the most significant works of Catholic historical scholarship in the nineteenth century. William Clark's translation presents the first two and a half volumes of Hefele's study, up to the Second Council of Nicaea (the German original is nine volumes, through the year 1536). This study marked a new stage in the study of conciliar action.

Author : Dimitris Kyrtatas
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789607352

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The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities by Dimitris Kyrtatas Pdf

The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities deals with a small number of topics which, in one way or another, have long attracted the attention of students of early Christianity. Above all, it is an attempt to investigate the social origins and the social positions of the early Christians. Recent studies are arriving at the conclusion, contrary to long-held views, that the primitive Christian communities, those which emerge after the first chapters of Acts, did not consist of the 'dregs of the populace'. However, in spite of the important work which is being done on the subject, few of the recent books concerned with such sociological issues go far beyond the New Testament age. What still requires investigation is the composition of the early communities from the first years of the mission to the Gentiles down to the age of Constantine, when large sections of the population, from all social classes, started joining the Christian churches.