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The First General Council (First Council of Nicaea, 325) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Arius and Arianism. The christological problem. The "Logos" in Hellenic philosophy; in Scripture and tradition. Constantine the Great. Hosius of Cordova. A council of confessors. Homoousios. Antecedent associations of the term. Nicene Creed. Self-mutilation. Christian virgins. Episcopal elections. The Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem. Interpretation of canon six. Reconciliation of apostates. Penitential stations. Reordinations. Deaconesses. The ordo viduarum. | ||
The Second General Council (First Council of Constantinople, 381) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| The Church and the Arian factions. Attempts to annihilate the term homoousios. Ecclesiastical conditions in the East. St. Gregory of Nazianzus. Theodosius the Great. Episcopal jurisdictions. Constantinopolitan ambition. Maximus the Cynic. | ||
The Third General Council (Council of Ephesus, 431) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Nestorius and Nestorianism. The school of Antioch and the humanity of Christ. St. Cyril and the hypostatic union. Pope Celestine I. The fundamental error in the christological system of Nestorius. John of Antioch and his pseudo-council. Revolters against the council. | ||
The Fourth General Council (Council of Chalcedon, 451) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| The anti-Nestorian offensive. Eutyches. Monophysitism. Pope Leo the Great. His Epistola Dogmatica. Robber Council. Violence of the Patriarch of Alexandria. Empress Pulcheria and Marcian. Convocation of a new council. The council's doctrinal formula. Chorepiscopi. Wandering clerics. Title of ordination. Mixed marriages. Deaconesses. Consecrated virgins. Women-stealers. Constantinopolitan ambition realized. | ||
The Fifth General Council (Second Council of Constantinople, 553) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| The Quinisext Council. Emperor Justinian I and the Monophysites. Controversy concerning the Three Chapters. Authority of Chalcedon. Pope Vigilius brought forcibly to Constantinople. He is abandoned by the Western bishops. His flight. The Emperor's tyranny. He repudiates the Pope, and the council becomes schismatic. | ||
The Sixth General Council (Third Council of Constantinople, 680) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Emperor Heraclius and the Monophysites of Syria and Egypt. Sergius patriarch of Constantinople and Pope Honorius I. Monothelitism. The Ecthesis. Oriental patriarchates in the hands of Monothelites. The Typus. | ||
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