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1 Fwd,2| falsehood at the Apostolic Council held at Jerusalem, that
2 Fwd,2| falsehood at the Apostolic Council, Rome's argument of papal
3 1,1 | at the Second Ecumenical Council (381). Importantly, it was
4 1,1 | ancient heresy that this Council introduced into the very
5 1,1 | opinions after an Ecumenical Council expressed its judgment on
6 1,1 | being formed by the National Council of Churches and the World
7 1,1 | of Churches and the World Council of Churches, which created
8 1,11| relating to, or generated by a council” (American Heritage Dictionary).
9 1,11| the Apostles gathered in a Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15),
10 1,11| and the decrees of this Council were acknowledged as obligatory
11 1,11| Acts 16:4). By means of the Council of Jerusalem, the Apostles
12 1,11| here that the Apostolic Council speaks especially clearly
13 1,11| presbyters. At this first Council, the question is subject
14 1,11| s), the decision of the Council is written. Also important
15 1,11| of Rome was superior to a council of the Church and that a
16 1,11| of the Church and that a council was ecumenical only because
17 1,11| Church believes that the council is the chief means by which
18 1,11| authority in general, is a council of bishops. For a local
19 1,11| a local Church, it is a council of its local bishops, and
20 1,11| the Ecumenical Church, a council of bishops made up of representatives
21 1,12| By what name is the first Council of the Holy Church called?~
22 1,12| called?~ It is known as the Council of Jerusalem, or the Apostolic
23 1,12| Jerusalem, or the Apostolic Council.~ ~
24 1,13| are the details of this Council recorded?~ The details of
25 1,13| recorded?~ The details of the Council of Jerusalem are recorded
26 1,14| 14.~ Where did the Council take place?~ The Council
27 1,14| Council take place?~ The Council took place in Jerusalem,
28 1,15| question debated at the first Council of the Holy Church?~ The
29 1,15| of the Holy Church?~ The Council of Jerusalem convened about
30 1,15| could meet as one. This Council then made its decision known
31 1,15| Christian Churches.~ This first Council is significant for two reasons:
32 1,15| Jewish people; and 2) the Council set the precedent for Church
33 1,15| infallible” pope. Instead, a Council of Apostles was convened.~ ~
34 1,18| then leave unanswered?~ The Council of Jerusalem assembled the
35 1,18| places and times. Why is the Council of Jerusalem not considered
36 1,18| addendum: The Apostolic Council was not ecumenical, but
37 1,18| actually participated in the Council, and only James, the bishop
38 1,18| higher calling than a local council and is called the Apostolic
39 1,18| is called the Apostolic Council].~ ~ ~ ~
40 2,2 | necessary in order for a council to be canonical?~ To be
41 2,2 | canonical?~ To be canonical, a council must be accepted and certified
42 2,2 | by a subsequent general council.~ ~
43 2,3 | necessary in order for a council to be ecumenical?~ An Ecumenical
44 2,3 | ecumenical?~ An Ecumenical Council starts out as a general
45 2,3 | starts out as a general council — that is, a council in
46 2,3 | general council — that is, a council in which all Orthodox bishops
47 2,3 | decisions reached in such a council are accepted by the entire
48 2,3 | by a subsequent general council, the council is then termed
49 2,3 | subsequent general council, the council is then termed ecumenical.~ ~
50 2,6 | by the Second Ecumenical Council, came to be shared by these
51 2,6 | Emperor Constantine called a Council of bishops to gather from
52 2,6 | world. Modeled after the Council in the time of the Apostles,
53 2,6 | Church. This First Ecumenical Council held at Nicaea, as well
54 2,6 | as the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, articulated
55 2,6 | Before the First Ecumenical Council, there was no universally
56 2,6 | in the First Ecumenical Council was St. Athanasius of Alexandria,
57 2,10| summoned the first General Council of the Christian Church.~ ~
58 2,12| together the first General Council?~ The textbook for this
59 2,12| he convened the Nicene Council to clarify and elaborate
60 2,12| specifically, the First Ecumenical Council was convoked against the
61 2,12| bodily” (Col 2:9). This Council anathematized both the Arian
62 2,12| being, the First Ecumenical Council affirmed that the Son of
63 2,12| Father.~ The First Ecumenical Council also composed the Church'
64 2,12| at the Second Ecumenical Council. The unity and equality
65 2,15| at a subsequent general council, the councils then received
66 2,17| Incarnation, etc). at the Council?~ The bishops did not explain
67 2,33| Arianism, the First Ecumenical Council (325) answered that only
68 2,33| none but God Himself. The Council went on to affirm the truth
69 2,33| nature. The Fourth Ecumenical Council (451) replied with a proclamation
70 2,33| will. The Sixth Ecumenical Council (680) condemned this false
71 2,34| by the First Ecumenical Council?~ The First Ecumenical Council
72 2,34| Council?~ The First Ecumenical Council proclaimed in its Creed: “
73 2,35| salvation of man and that the Council is the chief means by which
74 2,35| authority in general, is a council of bishops: for a local
75 2,35| for a local Church it is a council of its local bishops, and
76 2,35| the Ecumenical Church, a council of the bishops of the whole
77 2,35| As noted, an Ecumenical Council starts out as a general
78 2,35| starts out as a general council of bishops from all districts
79 2,35| distinguishing marks of an Ecumenical Council. The first is that it is
80 2,35| definition of an Ecumenical Council a law of the empire for
81 2,35| the voice of the Church, a council's decisions must be in harmony
82 2,35| Councils, and conversely, a council cannot be ecumenical if
83 2,35| confirmed by means of another council. In a footnote, it is explained
84 2,35| the decisions of a general council are overturned if the Church
85 2,35| Ephesus (449), the Iconoclast Council of Hieria (754), and Florence (
86 2,35| of the Third Ecumenical Council, repeated by the Fourth,
87 2,35| at the First Ecumenical Council, and it emphasized the monotheistic
88 2,35| at the Second Ecumenical Council, emphasized the respective
89 2,35| decision of an Ecumenical Council is the highest earthly authority
90 2,35| decision of the first Apostolic Council, “For it seemed good to
91 3,1 | at the Second Ecumenical Council?~ The Second Ecumenical
92 3,1 | The Second Ecumenical Council developed the teaching of
93 3,1 | Father and Son are God. This Council also adopted the Nicene
94 3,2 | of the Second Ecumenical Council.~ These Fathers were Saints
95 3,5 | bishops. The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 accorded
96 3,5 | of the Fourth Ecumenical Council held at Chalcedon. Moreover,
97 3,5 | Rome, but to an Ecumenical Council, which alone was (and is)
98 3,5 | Likewise, the Second Ecumenical Council proclaims that “Jerusalem
99 3,5 | Peter presided over the Council of Jerusalem as a pope.
100 3,5 | Although Peter spoke at the Council, James disagreed with Peter,
101 3,5 | center of the Apostolic Council and was its voice, and it
102 3,5 | any way presided over the Council. If Roman Catholics would
103 3,5 | for themselves that the Council of Jerusalem was not presided
104 3,5 | 1870, at the First Vatican Council, did Pope Pius IX succeed
105 3,5 | definition of the Vatican Council, the pope is infallible
106 3,5 | by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. At this Council, the delegates
107 3,5 | Ecumenical Council. At this Council, the delegates of the Roman
108 3,5 | infallibility at the First Vatican Council, one of the Catholic bishops,
109 3,5 | rose and addressed the council with these words:~ ~I do
110 3,6 | was the Third Ecumenical Council held?~ The Third Ecumenical
111 3,6 | held?~ The Third Ecumenical Council was held at Ephesus in 431.~ ~
112 3,7 | issues necessitated the Third Council?~ Christological issues —
113 3,7 | brought about the Third Council. The Council was convened
114 3,7 | about the Third Council. The Council was convened against one
115 3,7 | teaching was condemned at the Council.~ ~
116 3,8 | which necessitated the Third Council?~ Nestorius (d. c. 451),
117 3,12| to the Third Ecumenical Council?~ Nestorius declined to
118 3,14| 13, the Third Ecumenical Council condemned Nestorianism and
119 3,15| 15.~ At the false council of 449, two persons from
120 3,16| The Fourth Ecumenical Council, that of Chalcedon, was
121 3,16| heresy was rejected at that Council. As Protopresbyter Michael
122 3,16| Pomazansky explains, the Fourth Council “precisely formulated the
123 3,19| by the Sixth Ecumenical Council, which replied that since
124 3,20| preceding the Sixth Ecumenical Council?~ The rise of Islam came
125 3,22| Concerning the Seventh Ecumenical Council that defended icons, while
126 4,6 | did the Seventh Ecumenical Council meet?~ The Seventh Ecumenical
127 4,6 | The Seventh Ecumenical Council met in Nicaea in 787. This
128 4,6 | met in Nicaea in 787. This Council dealt largely with Iconoclasm,
129 4,6 | Iconoclasm was condemned at this Council.~ ~
130 4,11| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.~ ~
131 4,12| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council fully concurred. They stated
132 4,12| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council states that “the more continually
133 4,12| the Seventh Ecumenical Council expressed the dogma of the
134 4,12| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. However, as he goes on
135 4,18| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council agreed, for they also stated
136 5,8 | manifested itself at the Council of Florence in 1439. After
137 5,8 | betrayal of Orthodoxy at that council, it was handed over to its
138 6,6 | fallen into heresy at the Council of Florence and had been
139 6,10| In what year and in what council did Charlemagne manage to
140 6,10| adopted at the semi-Iconoclast council at Frankfurt in 794. As
141 6,11| To what heresy was the council in Frankfurt related?~ The
142 6,11| Frankfurt related?~ The council was related to the earlier
143 6,13| authority was another Ecumenical Council. The Greed is the common
144 6,16| infallible. At the Apostolic Council held at Jerusalem (cf. second
145 6,16| Latins demonstrated at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-
146 6,16| West. As a body gathered in Council, such an assembly would
147 6,16| faith. The Second Vatican Council (1963), however, had no
148 6,16| new Christian,” etc. The council itself said that the Church
149 6,16| pulpit prior to the Vatican Council were now no longer taught.~ ~/.../
150 6,18| the book The Pope and the Council — a frontal attack on papal
151 6,18| declared a see until the Council of Chalcedon in 451, some
152 7,13| the Seventh Ecumenical Council laying down that the Book
153 7,14| by the National and World Council of Churches, is leading
154 7,14| Father of the Church or Council hold any special wisdom
155 7,14| what later became the World Council of Churches in order to
156 7,17| published under the National Council of Churches of the USA (
157 7,17| conjunction with the World Council of Churches, is forming
158 7,17| travesty.~ Likewise, the World Council of Churches published and
159 7,17| from the time of the Jewish council in Jamnia in 90 AD (see
160 7,17| Scriptures at the Jewish Council of Jamnia at the end of
161 7,17| authority of the Jewish council in preference to that of
162 7,18| the decisions of a local council obtain ecumenical authority?~
163 7,18| statements of an Ecumenical Council.~ ~
164 7,19| example, was confronted by the Council of Alexandria, but when
165 7,19| by the First Ecumenical Council). In their confrontations
166 7,19| of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which refer to the veneration
167 7,19| both the Seventh Ecumenical Council and the councils of the
168 7,21| assertion that when and if a new council of the Church is assembled,
169 8,7 | text. The Second Ecumenical Council affirmed with its single
170 8,7 | Father. The Third Ecumenical Council, by prohibiting the issuance
171 8,7 | subtraction. The Third Ecumenical Council handed down this decree,
172 8,14| Creed, then an Ecumenical Council is the only competent body
173 8,14| with it. Only an Ecumenical Council has the right not to alter,
174 8,14| decisions reached at an earlier Council. For any part of the Church
175 8,14| de-Christianizing Second Vatican Council. At that time, the offering
176 8,14| since the Second Vatican Council to show their solidarity
177 9,15| declared de fide by the Second Council of Lyons (1274) and confirmed
178 9,15| 1274) and confirmed by the Council of Florence (1439), and
179 9,39| it. The Fifth Ecumenical Council, in refuting the various
180 10,6 | nature of the Church. In a council, many bishops assemble in
181 10,7 | Chalcedon to the Church?~ The Council of Chalcedon taught that
182 10,16| of the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680, and this definition
183 10,16| absence of another Ecumenical Council.~ As a bishop explains regarding
184 10,16| than the Sixth Ecumenical Council, a council was called in
185 10,16| Sixth Ecumenical Council, a council was called in Carthage in
186 10,16| in Carthage in 390. This council's second canon prescribed
187 10,16| decree, the Fathers of the council referred to Apostolic Tradition
188 10,19| proclamations of faith in a Council are strictly the prerogatives
189 10,20| in the Second Ecumenical Council, in explaining the structure
190 10,24| God. The Fathers of the Council of Ephesus (Third Ecumenical
191 10,24| Ephesus (Third Ecumenical Council) wanted to maintain this
192 10,27| of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (the Ninth Canon against
193 10,28| at the Fifth Ecumenical Council the false teaching of the
194 11,3 | When attacking the reunion council of Florence, he did not
195 11,3 | by the Second Ecumenical Council. At that time, the ancient
196 11,4 | at the First Ecumenical Council, which decreed that the
197 11,4 | by the First Ecumenical Council, whereas the Western Churches
198 11,4 | when the Second Vatican Council made radical, de-Christianizing
199 11,4 | reformers of the Second Vatican Council justified this innovation
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