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That the origin of councils is derived from the Apostolic Synod held at Jerusalem about the year 52, is undoubted; but theologians are not agreed as to whether they were instituted by divine or by human authority. The true answer to this question is as follows: They are an apostolical institution; but the apostles, when they instituted them, acted under the commission which they received from Christ, otherwise they could not have published the decisions of their synod with the words, It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us. They must have been convinced that the Lord of the Church had promised and had granted His Spirit to the assemblies of the Church. Later synods have acted and spoken in the same conviction, that the Holy Ghost governed the assemblies of the Church; and Cyprian in his time wrote, in the name of the Council over which he presided, A.D. 252, to Pope Cornelius: It seemed good to us, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit (Placuit nobis, Sancto Spiritu suggerente). To the same effect the Synod of Arles, A.D. 314, expressed itself: It seemed good, therefore, in the presence of the Holy Spirit and His angels (Placuit ergo, prsente Spiritu Sancto et angelis ejus: Hardouin, Collect. Concil. t. i. p. 262). And it was this conviction, which was so universal, that led the Emperor Constantine the Great to call the decree of the Synod of Arles a heavenly judgment (cleste judicium); and he added, that the judgment of the priests ought to be so received as though the Lord Himself sat and judged (sacerdotum judicium ita debet haberi, ac si ipse DOMINUS residens judicet). Twenty years later he again publicly expressed the same belief, at the close of the first cumenical council at Nica, in these words: What seemed good to the three hundred holy bishops (that is, the members of the Nicene Synod) is no otherwise to be thought of than as the judgment of the only Son of God (Quod trecentis sanctis episcopis visum est, non est aliud putandum, quam solius Filii Dei sententia). In perfect agreement with this are the testimonies of all the ancient Fathers, Greek as well as Latin, of Athanasius as of Augustine and Gregory the Great, the latter of whom goes so far as to compare the authority of the first four general councils with the importance of the four holy Gospels. Arianism - Encyclopedia Volume - Catholic Online HISTORY Paul of Samosata who was contemporary with Dionysius and Bishop of Antioch may be judged the true ancestor of those heresies which relegated Christ beyond HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH* *Schaff Philip History of the Christian Church This material has been carefully compared corrected and emended (according to the 1910 edition of Charles Early Church History: Who Were the Two Major Groups Early Church History: Who Were the Two Major Groups that Professed Christ in the Second Third and Fourth Centuries? What Does Early Catholic Church History Reveal? Early Church Fathers - Christian Classics Ethereal Library In this electronic edition of the Early Church Fathers series the volumes have been carefully proofed and converted to ThML by CCEL staff and volunteers Early Church Fathers - Additional Works in English Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts Edited by Roger Pearse These English translations are all out of copyright but were not included in the 38 volume The Christian Roman Empire series - Evolution Publishing Christian Roman Empire series The study of the Late Roman/Early Byzantine world has been of great interest to scholars throughout the centuries Fathers of the Church - Encyclopedia Volume - Catholic It follows that as our own Fathers are the predecessors who have taught us so the Fathers of the whole Church are especially the earlier teachers who instructed First seven Ecumenical Councils - Wikipedia The Councils These seven ecumenical councils are: Council Date Convoked by President Attendance (approx) Topics; First Council of Nicaea Church history Theopedia Church history or the history of the Christian Faith began about 30 AD in Palestine with a small number of Jews and Jewish Proselytes about 120 according to Acts History of Christianity - Wikipedia The Apostolic Church was the community led by the apostles and to some degree Jesus' relatives In his "Great Commission" the resurrected Jesus commanded that his
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