Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.14: The Seven Ecumenical Councils (Catholic Edition)
Overview
Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume XIV: The Seven Ecumenical Councils. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series XIV The First Council of Nicea The Nicene Creed The Canons of 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice The Captions of the Arabic Canons Attributed to the Council of Nice Proposed Action on Clerical Celibacy The Synodal Letter On the Keeping of Easter The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocaesarea, Antioch and Laodicea The First Council of Constantinople The Holy Creed Which the 150 Holy Fathers Set Forth Letter of the Same Holy Synod to the Most Pious Emperor Theodosius the Great Canons of the 150 Fathers Who Assembled at Constantinople The Synodical Letter The Council of Ephesus Extracts from the Acts The Epistle of Cyril to Nestorius The Epistle of Cyril to Nestorius with the XII Anathematisms Decree of the Council against Nestorius The Letter of Pope Celestine to the Synod of Ephesus The Canons of the 200 Holy and Blessed Fathers Who Met at Ephesus The Letter of the Same Holy Synod of Ephesus to the Sacred Synod in Pamphylia concerning Eustathius Who Had Been Their Metropolitan The Letter of the Synod to Pope Celestine The Definition of the Holy and Ecumenical Synod of Ephesus against the Impious Messalians Decree of the Synod in the Matter of Euprepius and Cyril The Council of Chalcedon Extracts from the Acts The Letter of Cyril to John of Antioch The Tome of St. Leo The Condemnation Sent by the Holy and Ecumenical Synod to Dioscorus The Definition of Faith of the Council of Chalcedon Decree on the Jurisdiction of Jerusalem and Antioch The Decree with Regard to the Bishop of Ephesus Decree with Regard to Nicomedia The 30 Canons of the Holy and Fourth Synod of Chalcedon The Second Council of Constantinople Extracts from the Acts The Sentence of the Synod The Capitula of the Council The Anathemas against Origen The Anathematisms of the Emperor Justinian against Origen, The Decretal Epistle of Pope Vigilius in Confirmation of the Fifth Ecumenical Synod The Third Council of Constantinople Extracts from the Acts The Letter of Agatho, Pope of Old Rome, to the Emperor, and the Letter of Agatho Addressed to the Sixth Council The Sentence against the Monothelites The Definition of Faith The Prosphoneticus to the Emperor Letter of the Council to St. Agatho The Imperial Edict Posted in the Third Atrium of the Great Church near What is Called Dicymbala The Canons of the Council in Trullo, Often Called the Quinisext Council The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople The Second Council of Nicea The Divine Sacra Sent by the Emperors Constantine and Irene to the Most Holy and Most Blessed Hadrian, Pope of Old Rome The Imperial Sacra Read at the First Session Extracts from the Acts Part of Pope Hadrian’s Letter Epitome of the Definition of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum, Held in Constantinople The Decree of the Holy, Great, Ecumenical Synod, the Second of Nice The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council Letter of the Synod to the Emperor and Empress Canons and Rulings, Not Having Conciliar Origin, but Approved by Name in Canon II of the Synod in Trullo The Apostolical Canons The Canons of the Blessed Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria, and Martyr, Which are Found in his Sermon on Penitence The Canonical Epistle of St. Gregory, Archbishop of Neocaesarea, Who is called Thaumaturgus The Epistle of St. Athanasius to the Monk Ammus The Epistle of the Same Athanasius Taken from the 39th Festal Epistle The Epistle of St. Athanasius to Ruffinian The First Canonical Epistle of Basil The Second Canonical Epistle of Basil The Third Epistle of the Same to the Same From an Epistle of Basil to the Blessed Amphilochius on the Difference of Meats Of Basil to Diodorus Bishop of Tarsus, concerning a Man Who Had Taken Two Sisters to Wife Of Basil to Gregory a Presbyter, That He Should Separate from a Woman Who Dwelt with Him Of Basil to the Chorepiscopi, That No Ordinations Should Be Made Contrary to the Canons Of Basil to His Suffragans That They Should Not Ordain for Money From Chapter XVII of the Book St. Basil Wrote to Blessed Amphilochius on the Holy Ghost From the Letter of Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans Of Basil to Agatho the Bishop Of Basil to Menas the Bishop The Canonical Epistle of St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, to St. Letoius, Bishop of Mitylene From the Metre Poems of St. Gregory Theologus, Specifying Which Books of the Old and New Testament Should Be Read From the Iambics of St. Amphilochius, the Bishop to Seleucus on the Same Subject The Canonical Answers of Timothy, the Most Holy Bishop of Alexandria, Who was One of the 150 Fathers Gathered Together at Constantinople, to the Questions Proposed to Him concerning Bishops and Clerics, The Prosphonesus of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, When the Holy Epiphanies Happened to Fall on a Sunday The Commonitory of Theophilus Which Ammon Received on Account of Lycus The Narrative of Theophilus concerning those Called Cathari The Canonical Epistle of our Holy Father among the Saints, Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, on the Hymns Of Cyril of Alexandria to the Bishops of Libya and Pentapolis The Encyclical Letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and of the Holy Synod Met with Him to all the Holy Metropolitans, and to the Pope of the City of Rome
Top Highlights
“And we mean by deaconesses such as have assumed the habit, but who, since they have no imposition of hands, are to be numbered only among the laity.” (Page 40)
“Forasmuch as there are certain persons who kneel on the Lord’s Day and in the days of Pentecost, therefore, to the intent that all things may be uniformly observed everywhere (in every parish), it seems good to the holy Synod that prayer be made to God standing.” (Page 40)
“Let the ancient customs in Egypt, Libya and Pentapolis prevail, that the Bishop of Alexandria have jurisdiction in all these, since the like is customary for the Bishop of Rome also.” (Page 15)
“The Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome; because Constantinople is New Rome.” (Page 178)
“First of all, then, in the presence of our most religious Sovereign Constantine, investigation was made of matters concerning the impiety and transgression of Arius and his adherents; and it was unanimously decreed that he and his impious opinion should be anathematized, together with the blasphemous words and speculations in which he indulged, blaspheming the Son of God, and saying that he is from things that are not, and that before he was begotten he was not, and that there was a time when he was not, and that the Son of God is by his free will capable of vice and virtue; saying also that he is a creature. All these things the holy Synod has anathematized, not even enduring to hear his impious doctrine and madness and blasphemous words.” (Page 53)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.14: The Seven Ecumenical Councils (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 14
- Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Print Publication Date: 1900
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.128
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:54Z