TY  - GEN
T1  - Voting about God in early church councils
A1  - MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-2022
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn184842372
AB  - In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical councils from A.D. 325 to 553, in which participants gave authority to doctrinal choices by majority vote. The author investigates the sometimes astonishing bloodshed and violence that marked the background to church council proceedings, and from there goes on to describe the planning and staging of councils, the emperors' role, the routines of debate, the participants' understanding of the issues, and their views on God's intervention in their activities. He concludes with a look at the significance of the councils and their doctrinal decisions within the history of Christendom.
OP  - 170
CN  - BV710 .M28 2006eb
SN  - 9780300135299
SN  - 0300135297
SN  - 9786611735050
SN  - 6611735054
SN  - 9780300255416
SN  - 0300255411
SN  - 0300115962
SN  - 9780300115963
SN  - 1281735051
SN  - 9781281735058
KW  - Councils and synods.
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
KW  - God (Christianity) : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600.
KW  - Conciles et synodes.
KW  - Église : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - Dieu (Christianisme) : Histoire des doctrines : ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Theology : Ecclesiology.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church
KW  - Councils and synods
KW  - God (Christianity) : History of doctrines
KW  - Algemene concilies.
KW  - Bisschoppen.
KW  - 30 - 600
ER  -