Voting about God in early church councils /
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 g...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192276 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The democratic element
- The cognitive element
- The 'supernaturalist' element
- The violent element
- Preliminaries
- Councils in action
- The stage
- Dioscorus
- Management
- Exact words.