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1 Fwd,6| interpretation. The Seven Great Ecumenical Councils were all held in
2 1,1 | those who were active in the Ecumenical Councils [Protopresbyter
3 1,1 | Universal Church at the Second Ecumenical Council (381). Importantly,
4 1,1 | private opinions after an Ecumenical Council expressed its judgment
5 1,1 | falsehood and promotes a future ecumenical “church” that will unify
6 1,1 | Holy Apostles, and upon the Ecumenical Councils, Satan denies the
7 1,1 | stating that the worldwide ecumenical apostasy is spreading on
8 1,1 | the true Church, while the ecumenical movement, having united
9 1,1 | comes to regard itself as an ecumenical “super-church,” its infinite
10 1,1 | increasingly apparent. Once the ecumenical movement's man-made religion (
11 1,1 | who traffic in the evil ecumenical movement and who see to
12 1,11| its government, that the Ecumenical Councils represented the
13 1,11| of the Church, that these Ecumenical Councils were not called
14 1,11| canons or creeds of these [Ecumenical] Councils do we find any
15 1,11| Church and that a council was ecumenical only because the bishop
16 1,11| of the Church, but to an ecumenical consensus or collective
17 1,11| the Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils.... Today with
18 1,11| local bishops, and for the Ecumenical Church, a council of bishops
19 1,18| considered the first of the Ecumenical Councils?~ [Professor's
20 1,18| Apostolic Council was not ecumenical, but was local in nature.
21 2,1 | Orthodoxy attaches to the Seven Ecumenical Councils, those giant foundations
22 2,1 | there are seven holy and Ecumenical Councils, and these are
23 2,1 | Catholic [i.e., Universal] and Ecumenical Church.”~ ~
24 2,3 | order for a council to be ecumenical?~ An Ecumenical Council
25 2,3 | council to be ecumenical?~ An Ecumenical Council starts out as a
26 2,3 | the council is then termed ecumenical.~ ~
27 2,6 | recognized by the Second Ecumenical Council, came to be shared
28 2,6 | it was the first of seven Ecumenical Councils in the history
29 2,6 | of the Church. This First Ecumenical Council held at Nicaea,
30 2,6 | Nicaea, as well as the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople,
31 2,6 | the Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Councils themselves acknowledge
32 2,6 | Scripture. Before the First Ecumenical Council, there was no universally
33 2,6 | instrumental in the First Ecumenical Council was St. Athanasius
34 2,12| specifically, the First Ecumenical Council was convoked against
35 2,12| created being, the First Ecumenical Council affirmed that the
36 2,12| God the Father.~ The First Ecumenical Council also composed the
37 2,12| completed later at the Second Ecumenical Council. The unity and equality
38 2,15| occurred....” [Eerdmans Seven Ecumenical Councils, p. 596.] Local
39 2,15| general councils are the Ecumenical Councils. The same Fr. Michael
40 2,15| title Oikoumenkie Synodos (Ecumenical Synods), from oikoumenikos,
41 2,16| introduces the discussion of the Ecumenical Councils with the popular —
42 2,16| Florovsky explains, the Ecumenical Councils defended what the
43 2,20| and ratified by the Seven Ecumenical Councils. These Councils,
44 2,26| attacked God's revelation, the Ecumenical Councils defended the truth
45 2,32| nature did the first two Ecumenical Councils concentrate?~ The
46 2,32| concentrate?~ The first two Ecumenical Councils (fourth century)
47 2,33| Condemning Arianism, the First Ecumenical Council (325) answered that
48 2,33| divine nature. The Fourth Ecumenical Council (451) replied with
49 2,33| the divine will. The Sixth Ecumenical Council (680) condemned
50 2,34| was set forth by the First Ecumenical Council?~ The First Ecumenical
51 2,34| Ecumenical Council?~ The First Ecumenical Council proclaimed in its
52 2,35| from this section about the Ecumenical Councils.~ The textbook
53 2,35| local bishops, and for the Ecumenical Church, a council of the
54 2,35| p. 235].~ ~As noted, an Ecumenical Council starts out as a
55 2,35| distinguishing marks of an Ecumenical Council. The first is that
56 2,35| but by royal orders.” The Ecumenical Councils were convened by
57 2,35| make the definition of an Ecumenical Council a law of the empire
58 2,35| Scriptures, or the previous Ecumenical Councils.” To be the voice
59 2,35| Scriptures and the preceding Ecumenical Councils, and conversely,
60 2,35| conversely, a council cannot be ecumenical if its decisions are in
61 2,35| Scriptures or the previous Ecumenical Councils. If the decisions
62 2,35| decisions and canonizings by the Ecumenical Councils, either through
63 2,35| consciousness is expressed in the Ecumenical Councils of the Church [
64 2,35| Concerning what the Ecumenical Councils accomplished, Fr.
65 2,35| these canons. Lastly, the Ecumenical Councils confirmed the dogmatic
66 2,35| Michael explains that the Ecumenical Councils of the Church made
67 2,35| thus testifying that the Ecumenical Church has understood the
68 2,35| way, the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils concerning the
69 2,35| inviolable, authoritative, Ecumenical and Sacred Tradition in
70 2,35| decrees of the Councils, the Ecumenical Councils themselves acknowledge
71 2,35| subtraction (decrees of the Third Ecumenical Council, repeated by the
72 2,35| was written at the First Ecumenical Council, and it emphasized
73 2,35| Creed, written at the Second Ecumenical Council, emphasized the
74 2,35| the condemnation of five Ecumenical Councils that the Latin
75 2,35| definitions handed down by the Ecumenical Councils are infallible,
76 2,35| irrevocable authority. The Ecumenical Councils cannot be revised
77 2,35| that:~ ~The decision of an Ecumenical Council is the highest earthly
78 2,36| is that dealing with the Ecumenical Councils. These Councils
79 2,36| false doctrines with the Ecumenical Councils, the doctrines
80 3,1 | developed at the Second Ecumenical Council?~ The Second Ecumenical
81 3,1 | Ecumenical Council?~ The Second Ecumenical Council developed the teaching
82 3,2 | definitive work of the Second Ecumenical Council.~ These Fathers
83 3,5 | other bishops. The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325
84 3,5 | value. It meant that in ecumenical gatherings, the bishop of
85 3,5 | were seldom present at the Ecumenical Councils, and no pope ever
86 3,5 | one of them. Moreover, the Ecumenical Councils themselves never
87 3,5 | by Canon 28 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council held at Chalcedon.
88 3,5 | the Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils called for an equilibrium
89 3,5 | in the time of the Seven Ecumenical Councils. Just as in the
90 3,5 | bishop of Rome, but to an Ecumenical Council, which alone was (
91 3,5 | Churches.” Likewise, the Second Ecumenical Council proclaims that “
92 3,5 | the Church by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. At this Council,
93 3,6 | what year was the Third Ecumenical Council held?~ The Third
94 3,6 | Council held?~ The Third Ecumenical Council was held at Ephesus
95 3,12| controversy which led to the Third Ecumenical Council?~ Nestorius declined
96 3,14| questions 6-13, the Third Ecumenical Council condemned Nestorianism
97 3,16| reject fully half of the Ecumenical Councils. Monophysitism
98 3,16| Athos, 1994].~ The Fourth Ecumenical Council, that of Chalcedon,
99 3,17| Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Ecumenical Councils drew extensively
100 3,19| was condemned by the Sixth Ecumenical Council, which replied that
101 3,20| years preceding the Sixth Ecumenical Council?~ The rise of Islam
102 3,22| the Second to the Sixth Ecumenical Councils. The most significant
103 3,22| the textbook notes, the Ecumenical Councils resolved the Christological
104 3,22| Concerning the Seventh Ecumenical Council that defended icons,
105 4,6 | what city did the Seventh Ecumenical Council meet?~ The Seventh
106 4,6 | Council meet?~ The Seventh Ecumenical Council met in Nicaea in
107 4,11| the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.~ ~
108 4,12| The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council fully concurred.
109 4,12| the decrees of the Seventh Ecumenical Council states that “the
110 4,12| Iconoclasts, the Seventh Ecumenical Council expressed the dogma
111 4,12| represents [Eerdmans Seven Ecumenical Councils, p. 550].~ ~The
112 4,12| rejection of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. However, as he
113 4,12| fundamental concern of all the Ecumenical Councils was Christological
114 4,17| to the heresies and the Ecumenical Councils that repudiated
115 4,18| The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council agreed, for they
116 5,2 | We understand that the Ecumenical Councils were conducted
117 5,2 | bishops who attended the Ecumenical Councils were guided by
118 5,5 | would not commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch because of his
119 5,5 | Athonite Fathers to the ecumenical policies of Patriarch Bartholomew
120 5,5 | attended his enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch in 1991.~ In recent
121 6,4 | by the First and Second Ecumenical Councils.~ From the outset,
122 6,7 | to the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils, it did not play
123 6,13| Moreover, as noted above, the Ecumenical Councils specifically forbade
124 6,13| such authority was another Ecumenical Council. The Greed is the
125 6,13| has the right to modify an ecumenical document by its own judgment
126 6,13| lacked both biblical and ecumenical authority.~ Secondly, from
127 6,16| placed itself above the Ecumenical Councils, which are expressive
128 7,6 | means the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the writings
129 7,8 | definitions handed down by the Ecumenical Councils are infallible.
130 7,11| teachings and canons of the holy Ecumenical Councils, decrees and the
131 7,11| are considered by the Ecumenical Councils and the Holy Fathers
132 7,11| propounded at its Seven Ecumenical Councils. These things are
133 7,11| decisions of Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Councils as to which books
134 7,11| that without Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Councils, various other
135 7,11| explains that it is to the Ecumenical Councils and Holy Fathers
136 7,11| Orthodox Church is founded. The Ecumenical Councils made wide use of
137 7,11| Fathers contended through the Ecumenical Councils. Characteristic
138 7,12| definitions of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, including the
139 7,13| icon of Christ, the Seventh Ecumenical Council laying down that
140 7,14| found in the Acts of all the Ecumenical Councils, as well as in
141 7,14| relativism of the modern ecumenical movement.~ After the Latin
142 7,14| the Protestant-dominated ecumenical movement as its battle cry.~
143 7,14| Concerning the development of the ecumenical movement, the translators
144 7,14| And erupt it did! The ecumenical movement created the pan
145 7,14| absolute truth.~ In the ecumenical movement, a new basis of
146 7,14| Christianity (1 Jn 2:19).~ The ecumenical movement proclaims that
147 7,14| one true “church.”~ The ecumenical movement also preaches a
148 7,14| the same, are one.~ The ecumenical movement is creating a synthesis
149 7,14| dialogues, interfaith prayers, ecumenical services, and the like.~
150 7,14| not do. Indeed, the same ecumenical movement colluded with the
151 7,18| of a local council obtain ecumenical authority?~ The Ecumenical
152 7,18| ecumenical authority?~ The Ecumenical Councils are unerring and
153 7,18| doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Councils are infallible,
154 7,18| they then come to acquire ecumenical authority — that is, a universal
155 7,18| doctrinal statements of an Ecumenical Council.~ ~
156 7,19| subject, and which obtained ecumenical authority and inclusion
157 7,19| confronted by the First Ecumenical Council). In their confrontations
158 7,19| decisions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which refer to
159 7,19| decisions of both the Seventh Ecumenical Council and the councils
160 7,20| definitions handed down by the Ecumenical Councils must be seen in
161 7,20| regulations) were drawn up by the Ecumenical Councils, by local councils,
162 7,21| doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Councils, and he recognizes
163 7,21| through the Holy Apostles and Ecumenical Councils. The modernists'
164 7,22| through Scripture, through the Ecumenical Councils and the Creed,
165 8,7 | altered text. The Second Ecumenical Council affirmed with its
166 8,7 | from the Father. The Third Ecumenical Council, by prohibiting
167 8,7 | the Church's councils, the Ecumenical Councils themselves acknowledge
168 8,7 | or subtraction. The Third Ecumenical Council handed down this
169 8,7 | Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Ecumenical Councils. Thus, the Latin
170 8,7 | stands condemned by five Ecumenical Councils which it itself
171 8,11| with Scriptures, with the Ecumenical Councils, and with the Creed
172 8,14| without the consent of all. Ecumenical Councils produced the Creed,
173 8,14| produced the Creed, and Ecumenical Councils prohibited any
174 8,14| change in the Creed, then an Ecumenical Council is the only competent
175 8,14| to deal with it. Only an Ecumenical Council has the right not
176 8,14| unilaterally with the Creed of the Ecumenical Councils could only create
177 9,3 | the fourth century, the Ecumenical Councils, defending the
178 9,19| Holy Scriptures and in the Ecumenical Councils, is that He is
179 9,39| renewal of it. The Fifth Ecumenical Council, in refuting the
180 10,10| Fathers taught and which the Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided
181 10,10| condemned by the Church at her Ecumenical Councils. In these numerous
182 10,10| supra-confessional unification (the “ecumenical movement”) which is now
183 10,15| Church is manifested at Ecumenical Councils, the Ecumenical
184 10,15| Ecumenical Councils, the Ecumenical Councils are the infallible
185 10,16| in the canon of the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680, and this
186 10,16| in the absence of another Ecumenical Council.~ As a bishop explains
187 10,16| even earlier than the Sixth Ecumenical Council, a council was called
188 10,19| judging the Orthodoxy of any ecumenical synod that can be characterized
189 10,20| participant in the Second Ecumenical Council, in explaining the
190 10,23| titles assigned to her by two Ecumenical Councils, she is the Theotokos (
191 10,24| Council of Ephesus (Third Ecumenical Council) wanted to maintain
192 10,27| is a decree of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (the Ninth Canon
193 10,28| therefore condemned at the Fifth Ecumenical Council the false teaching
194 11,1 | Holy Fathers and the Seven Ecumenical Councils we scrupulously
195 11,1 | and uprooted by the Seven Ecumenical Councils, and monasticism
196 11,3 | introduced by the Second Ecumenical Council. At that time, the
197 11,4 | confirmed at the First Ecumenical Council, which decreed that
198 11,4 | handed down by the First Ecumenical Council, whereas the Western
199 11,4 | and at the behest of the ecumenical movement, the latter of
200 11,4 | handed down to us by the Ecumenical Church. By entering deeply
201 11,4 | the Holy Fathers of the Ecumenical Councils: “The preaching
202 11,4 | they represent the Seven Ecumenical Councils, while nine stand
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