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 What do you feel was the most important point brought forth in this section of the textbook?

            This section covered the Second to the Sixth Ecumenical Councils. The most significant point concerns the immense importance of these Councils. As the textbook notes, the Ecumenical Councils resolved the Christological and Trinitarian disputes, they identified and uprooted the basic heresies, they formed the dogmatic and canonical norms of the Orthodox faith, and lastly, they worked out the Church's governmental structure. Concerning the Seventh Ecumenical Council that defended icons, while it seems at first to stand apart from the preceding six, ultimately it too was concerned with Christ's Incarnation and man's salvation.