Sentences with phrase «ecumenical councils»

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To become Orthodox entails accepting the authority of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, the Bible, the patriarchs and bishops, etc..

Public debates followed in which Luther was maneuvered into saying that not only Popes but Ecumenical Councils might err, and that Hus's views were «Christian and evangelical.»

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Lindbeck's «rule - theory,» too, helped me to think about the very nature of the ecumenical councils, like the one Lindbeck attended, as akin to «following a rule,» and unfolding the treasure of the riches that the Church has received from Christ and his apostles.

Theology is dogmatic for Barth in that it embraces the classical dogmatic definitions of the ecumenical councils, and especially Chalcedon, as to the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ: in Jesus Christ we confront both what it means to be divine and what it means to be human.

The book certainly showed that Wills regards himself as an orthodox Christian, for he stoutly insisted there that he holds to the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation as understood by the first six ecumenical councils of the Church.

What became Christian orthodoxy was largely hammered out by debate in the ecumenical councils of the first few centuries, sometimes using concepts of Greek thought used by non-Christian philosophers.

Nonetheless he was an imaginative orthodox thinker, in the sense that he combined a commitment to orthodox church teaching (of the first four General Ecumenical Councils) with a thoughtful and creative application of ecumenical orthodoxy.

It did not resemble any icon of the Ecumenical Councils that we usually imagine.

I don't deny that wrong decisions were made at probably all of the councils at some point, but of the councils that truly shaped Christianity, the seven ecumenical councils, while they are ridden with strife and political maneuvering as well as true Christian devotion and worship, I believe that most of what they decided in terms of doctrine is not wrong.

Or you could have looked at the Ecumenical Councils as opposed to minor councils and synods, or the Ecumenical with East and West and compared them to the later Western ones (the Eastern Orthodox Church has not had an Ecumenical Council since the Seventh one in 787).

Although it is true that «more theological consensus is needed to restore unity than to preserve unity» and that there is consequently a certain difference between classical reception and present - day ecumenical reception, Edward Kilmartin is correct in saying that «as in the case of Nicaea 1, Chalcedon and the rest of the so - called ecumenical councils of the first millennium, reception took place through a more or less complicated process.»

[53] In the centuries immediately following, the issues under debate were more oriented to the understanding of Jesus as the Christ, [54] and then the question of the Trinity, [55] which led to the great ecumenical councils, to say nothing of the «conversion» of Constantine.

It was to discuss this question that the first two ecumenical councils — the Council of Nicea in 325 and the Council of Constantinople in 381 — were held.

It does not contradict any ecumenical councils or definitions of the faith.

«Then» means the period of my personal development before I became immersed in the meeting with and study of the ecumenical councils and leading ancient consensual exegetes.

Many assume Christianity to be identified with what became the classical Christian doctrines (orthodoxy), yet it was several centuries before these were explicitly enunciated in the creeds by the ecumenical councils.

These have concentrated on tracing dogmatic development from Jesus to Scripture to the Fathers and ecumenical councils before explaining the mysteries» inherent intelligibility.

The ecumenical councils later achieved the only true form of Christian teaching only by declaring to be heretical all who failed to accept their definitions.

Ker suggests, is because he was deeply versed in the history of ecumenical councils.

That is why the Church has had to have recourse to Ecumenical Councils and the Magisterium when an Arius, a Nestorius, a Luther or a Tyrrel have come along.

In the Roman empire, the fourth and fifth centuries were centuries of theological controversies and ecumenical councils.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the name of the Triune God, revealed to us by the incarnate Word Himself and the Holy Spirit, through Holy Tradition and Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the first seven Ecumenical Councils.

For better or for worse (depending on one's view), the Orthodox aren't going to be giving up on our dogmatic ecumenical councils or revising our Divine Liturgy.

I know that the decisions of the ecumenical councils with regard to Christ's person were sincerely meant to translate the received testimony of the primitive church into the more universal, established, and highly nuanced philosophic language of the period.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

Of course a Catholic who looks eastward finds nothing to which he objects, because what he sees is the Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils (but» here's the rub» for him, this means the first seven of twenty - one).

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

One reason why, I'm convinced, is that Vatican II, unlike previous ecumenical councils, did not provide authoritative keys to its own proper interpretation.

But certain pronouncements — like the theological statements of the Ecumenical Councils — have long been recognized by the Church at large as true and faithful understandings of Scripture.

Ecumenical councils used Greek as the working language; then they made an official translation into Latin for use in the West.

The text he used is that of Norman P. Tanner and Guiseppe Alberigo's Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils.

This living tradition includes the early creeds, the ecumenical councils, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

Moscow realizes that the gathering of the Council specifically in Istanbul has an important symbolic significance for the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, since six out of the seven Ecumenical Councils (with the exception of the Council of Ephesus) have taken place in Constantinople or its environs (Chalcedon is presently Kadiköy, a district of Istanbul, and Nicaea, modern Iznik, is within a short ride from the capital).

Unfortunately, some conservative Orthodox leaders have prematurely jumped to the conclusion that the Ecumenical Patriarchate intends the «Great and Holy» Council to be ecumenical in the sense uniquely attributed to the first seven ecumenical councils.

The first seven ecumenical Councils struggled with the divine revelation concerning God, the trinity, and Christ.

Cardinal Müller: Not even an ecumenical council can change the doctrine of the Church, because her Founder, Jesus Christ, entrusted the faithful preservation of his teachings and doctrine to the apostles and their successors.

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

Despite news reports to the contrary, the Orthodox Church has had numerous such councils since either the eighth or eleventh century — depending on whether the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) or the Great Schism (1054, roughly) is the supposed occasion of the last meeting.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

The greatest concern of the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.

He murdered his wife and son for this reason in AD 326 while he was actually presiding at the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea!

So far the Second Vatican Council has been the only Ecumenical Council to discuss the liturgy.

Certainly the ecumenical council to he summoned by Pope John XXIII should produce some good fruits, at least in the world - wide preparations for the council sessions.

In 787, the seventh ecumenical council in Nicea resolved the controversy over icons by declaring that both word and image may lead to knowledge of God.

An ecumenical council would not have been needed for that.

Theodore was condemned as a heretic in the fifth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in AD 553.)

This was followed in 1869 by the calling of the ecumenical council now known as Vatican I. Among other things it made the infallibility of the papacy a mandatory dogma.

Nicholas was one of the bishops who attended the first ecumenical council at Nicea in A.D. 325, where various church leaders discussed the divine nature of Christ.