In May 325 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine assembled the First Council of Nicaea to address a rising heresy called Arianism. The council blazed a new trail in that it was the first council convened with the intention of representing all churches in the ...
Chahyadi, Jason
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Three Sees of Peter in the Roman ecclesiological tradition of the end of the 4th — the first half of the 5th centuries [PDF]
The article is devoted to the development in the Roman church tradition of the idea of a special status in the Universal Church of the three Peter’s sees: Rome, Alexandria and Antioch.
Georgy Zakharov
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The authority of the Council of Nicaea in the letters of st. Leo, Pope of Rome [PDF]
This study is dedicated to assessing the place of the First Ecumenical Council (Nicaea, 325) in the corpus of letters of St. Leo the Great, Pope of Rome.
Petr Paskov
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Nicaea as political orthodoxy: Imperial Christianity versus episcopal polities
Fourth-century Christianity and the Council of Nicaea have continually been read as a Constantinian narrative. The dominancy of imperial Christianity has been a consequent feature of the established narrative regarding the events within early ...
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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General principles of Church organisation and the ways of its development in the East and West in light of the legacy of the Council of Nicaea (325) [PDF]
This article attempts to reconstruct the system of church organization based on the documents of the Council of Nicaea (325) and the letters of Emperor Constantine the Great reporting its results. The scholarly relevance of a separate examination of this
Georgy Zakharov
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Okoliczności zwołania Soboru Nicejskiego
The article presents the circumstances of the Council of Nicaea. There was a tradition to compose symbols of the faith (symbola fidei), and to organize synods. The Council of Nicaea was convoked by Emperor Constantine in cooperation with Pope Silvestre.
Józef Grzywaczewski
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Defining and Supplementing Conciliar Trinitarianism
This article constitutes a brief reply to Timothy Pawl's clear and insightful article on Conciliar Trinitarianism (defined as the Trinitarian theology of the Ecumenical Councils from Nicaea I to Nicaea II).
Alexis Torrance
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La teoria del “prototipo” negli Annales del Baronio
Cesare Baronio intraprende un’opera monumentale, affronta un mare di documenti, testimonianze, testi stampati per provare a mettere ordine anno per anno, in uno sforzo storiografico che – pur con tutti i limiti rinvenibili – resterà di riferimento per ...
Gennaro Petruccelli
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The Number and Authority of the Ecumenical Councils in the Second Helvetic Confession
Whilst Bullinger’s CHP accepts the decisions of the first four ecumenical councils, no description has been produced concerning their criteria. Based on the common features of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, the Apostles’ Council of ...
Pásztori-Kupán István
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The Canons of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in the Manuscript IOM, RAS Syr. 34 [PDF]
The article deals with the manuscript IOM, RAS Syr. 34, one leaf of parchment originating from the collection of Nikolai Likhachev. It contains a Syriac translation of selected documents of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (AD 325): the introduc ...
Smelova, Natalia
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