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Indeed. It is much safer to take the opinion of the first Seven Ecumenical Counsels; filled with enlightened and inspired theologians who have not been tainted by a thousand years of modernity over that of one or two self proclaimed experts on this particular topic.
Agreed, albeit with the partial exception of Chalcedon which is in part (the Tome of Leo and the anathema against Dioscorus) a sticking point for the Oriental Orthodox (on the other hand the anathema against Eutyches is entirely acceptable, the controversy rather of course surrounds St. Cyril's mia physis formula which we continue to employ, but fortunately this controversy is receding). I am not really an enthusiast of any Roman Pope named Leo (actually Leo I was the first to claim the pagan title Pontifex Maximus, which I rather wish he had not, as the word is inherently linked to the ancient Roman religion and its sacerdotal theology, unlike "Pope" or rather "Papem" which was since the second century the title of the Patriarch of Alexandria, not to be adopted by Rome until long after Chalcedon).
Its very difficult to find in the ancient councils disagreeable participants. Of the 318 at Nicea, even Eusebius of Caesarea, who is not regarded as a Saint chiefly because of his equivocation as to whether or not to condemn Arianism, still comes across as being a gentler and wiser theologian than most of the contemporary angry voices.
Iconoclasm has always been an angry, intemperate theology, which reflects its Islamic origin.
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