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What is an ‘ecumenical council’?

2023
Abstract Vatican II is the most important Catholic event of the past century, if not the past half-millennium. It also had, and has, ramifications far beyond the lives of the world’s billion-or-so Catholics. To understand why, this chapter introduces both the theological meaning of a ‘general ecumenical council’, and the critical ...
Shaun Blanchard, Stephen Bullivant
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Ecumenical Dialogue, Ecumenical Council, and Constantinople II

Toronto Journal of Theology, 1987
In the ecumenical dialogue between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, the issue of the status of the Ecumenical Councils of the undivided early Church has been of fundamental importance. All Roman Catholics and a great many Anglicans accord considerable authority to those councils as the 'Voice of the Church' on matters of doctrine.
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Doctrinal controversies and ecumenical councils

Sophia: An African Journal of Philosophy, 2015
This work focused on the doctrinal controversies that have confronted the Church in the course of its development and the accompanying councils that sought to resolve these theological controversies. The paper did this historically, by showing the origin of the problems, the factors and features involved in the controversies as well as the resolutions ...
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King James I's call for an ecumenical council

Studies in Church History, 1970
King James I was not, in the commonly accepted view, a reconciler of religious differences. Yet there is considerable evidence from the first years of his reign in England—the very period of the Hampton Court Conference, which established for him a reputation of intolerance—that James was actively interested in reconciling religious differences ...
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Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

2009
the Second Vatican Council as transnational ...
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