Part,  Chapter, Paragraph

 1     I, 1   |          importance to the place of councils in the life of the Church.
 2     I, 1   |            us. (Acts ~15:28). Later councils have ventured to speak with
 3     I, 1   |          become usual to hold local councils, attended by all the bishops
 4     I, 1   |            third century proceeded, councils widened in scope and began
 5     I, 1   |         this continual expansion of councils reach its logical conclusion: ~
 6     I, 1   |           there had only been local councils, of lesser or greater ~extent,
 7     I, 2   |             The Church of the Seven Councils~.All profess that there
 8     I, 2   |           seven holy and Ecumenical Councils, and these are the seven ~
 9     I, 2,1 |          first of ~ 9~seven General Councils; and these, like the city
10     I, 2,2 |                       The first Six Councils (325-681).~The life of the
11     I, 2,2 |     dominated by the seven General ~Councils. These Councils fulfilled
12     I, 2,2 |            General ~Councils. These Councils fulfilled a double task.
13     I, 2,2 |             and more important, the Councils defined once and for all
14     I, 2,2 |          drew up definitions at the Councils, ~did not imagine that they
15     I, 2,2 |              The discussions at the Councils at times sound abstract
16     I, 2,2 |             of redemption that ~the Councils were concerned to safeguard.
17     I, 2,2 |       Behind the definitions of the Councils lay the work of theologians,
18     I, 2,2 |             to ~the words which the Councils employed. It was the supreme
19     I, 2,2 |           supplemented by two later Councils, both held at ~Constantinople.
20     I, 2,3 |          Icons or the Seven General Councils: ~ ~To those who reject
21     I, 2,3 |             To those who reject the Councils of the Holy Fathers, and
22     I, 2,3 |             the period of the Seven Councils. These Seven Councils are
23     I, 2,3 |         Seven Councils. These Seven Councils are of immense importance
24     I, 2,3 |           on the basis of the Seven Councils, and retain a hope that
25     I, 2,3 |            the Church of ~the Seven Councils.. By this they do not mean
26     I, 2,3 |            see in the period of the Councils the great age of theology;
27     I, 2,3 |          the Bible, it is the Seven Councils which the Orthodox Church
28     I, 2,4 |             atmosphere in which the Councils met. So violent were the ~
29     I, 2,4 |           or dignified. .Synods and councils I ~salute from a distance,.
30     I, 2,4 |       Orthodoxy recognizes that the Councils were attended by imperfect
31     I, 2,4 |         distant figure who attended Councils; he was also in ~many cases
32     I, 2,4 |            Emperor.s task to summon councils and to carry their ~decrees
33     I, 3,1 |        decisions ~of the Ecumenical Councils, did not play a very active
34     I, 3,1 |             very active part in the Councils themselves; the ~Church
35     I, 3,1 |      reasons. First, the Ecumenical Councils specifically forbade any
36     I, 3,3 |       teaching was confirmed by two councils held at Constantinople in
37     I, 3,3 |       inferior to the Seven General Councils themselves. But western
38     I, 3,3 |     officially recognized these two councils, although many western Christians
39     I, 3,3 |          Athanasius and the General Councils: to safeguard man.s direct
40     I, 4,1 | controversies, the age of the Seven Councils, was at ~an end; the main
41     I, 4,3 |           Holy Fathers of the Seven Councils we scrupulously keep. As
42     I, 5,2 |           by no less than six local Councils between 1638 and 1691. In
43     I, 5,2 |       Moghila and Dositheus, on the Councils of Jassy and Jerusa-~lem,
44     I, 5,2 |         fullness. Nevertheless the ~Councils of the seventeenth century
45     I, 5,2 |        which neither the Ecumenical Councils ~nor the Church of the later
46     I, 5,2 |             the seventeenth-century Councils achieved. These Councils
47     I, 5,2 |            Councils achieved. These Councils were local, but the substance ~
48     I, 5,2 |            seventeenth-~ 52~century Councils, like the Hesychast Councils
49     I, 5,2 |        Councils, like the Hesychast Councils three hundred years before,
50     I, 5,2 |          period of the Ecu-~menical Councils. There are important doctrines
51     I, 5,2 |          not defined by the General Councils, which ~every Orthodox is
52    II, 0,11|           decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the writings of the
53    II, 0,11|       definitions of the Ecumenical~Councils: these things the Orthodox
54    II, 0,11|          our own day new Ecumenical Councils will meet, and Tradition
55    II, 0,12|          These were declared by the Councils of Jassy (1642) and Jerusalem (
56    II, 0,12|             2. The Seven Ecumenical Councils: The Creed~The doctrinal
57    II, 0,12|          faith put out by the Seven Councils possess, along with the~
58    II, 0,12|            Book of Hours).~3. Later Councils~The formulation of Orthodox
59    II, 0,12|             a) definitions by Local Councils (that is, councils attended
60    II, 0,12|            Local Councils (that is, councils attended by members of one~
61    II, 0,12|      doctrinal decisions~of General Councils are infallible, those of
62    II, 0,12|      treatment of the acts of Local Councils: in the case of the seventeenth
63    II, 0,12|             the seventeenth century~Councils, for example, their statements
64    II, 0,12|             3 The decisions of ‘the Councils of Constantinople in 1341
65    II, 0,12|      Fathers~The definitions of the Councils must be studied in the wider
66    II, 0,12|          Fathers. But as~with Local Councils, so with the Fathers, the
67    II, 0,12|         definitions, the Ecumenical Councils drew up Canons, dealing
68    II, 0,12|           Canons were made by Local Councils and by individ-~7~ual bishops.
69    II, 0,12|        doctrinal definitions of the Councils possess an absolute and
70    II, 0,12|        Orthodox Church — Scripture, Councils, Fathers, Liturgy, Canons,
71    II, 1,1 |            Gods;~and so the Reunion Councils of Lyons (1274) and Florence (
72    II, 2,1 |          the Orthodox emphasis~upon Councils. A council is an expression
73    II, 2,2 |          chiefly through Ecumenical Councils. But before we~can understand
74    II, 2,3 |                     Bishops, Laity, Councils~The Orthodox Church is a
75    II, 2,3 |              neither Patriarchs nor Councils could ever introduce new
76    II, 2,3 |          the final decision.~29~But councils of bishops can err and be
77    II, 2,3 |        decrees are infallible? Many~councils have considered themselves
78    II, 2,3 |       Florence in 1438-9. Yet these councils seem in no~way different
79    II, 2,3 |      appearance from the Ecumenical Councils. What, then, is the criterion~
80    II, 2,3 |            know which are the seven Councils that their~Church accepts
81    II, 2,3 |            the Orthodox theology of Councils~which remain obscure and
82    II, 2,3 |            emphasis on the need for councils to be received by the Church
83    II, 2,3 |       acceptance, this reception of councils by the Church as a whole,
84    II, 2,3 |           that the decisions of the councils should be confirmed~by a
85    II, 2,3 |   ecumenicity’ but the truth of the councils~which makes their decisions
86    II, 4,3 |      Orthodox writers, but Orthodox Councils such as that of Jerusalem
87    II, 4,3 |             of the decrees of Local Councils (see above, p. 211)).~47~
88    II, 6,2 |       agenda of future Pan-Orthodox Councils. During August~1964 an extremely
89    II, 6,2 |            and the seven Ecumenical Councils: the Orthodox claimed that
90    II, 6,2 |           Catholics, to the General Councils, the Fathers, and the Tradition~