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From 375? I thought the first ecumenical council took place in Acts 15?
Ahh. Fr Hopko. I heard he passed some years ago but wasn’t sure. I used to listen to his podcast on Ancient Faith Radio regarding the canons of the ecumenical councils. He gave a really accessible commentary on the same as I recall.We dont have a systematic theology like western churches so you're not going to find a version of Aquinas Summa Theologica. If you want a basic overview, I recommend Kallistos Ware "The Orthodox Church" (covers history and basic theology) and "The Orthodox Way" (which covers EO thought). For an online summary, The Orthodox Faith by Fr. Hopko of blessed memory.
Thanks. I didn’t know she did a volume in the ancient fathers set I have. I am aware that Revelation was accepted early in Asia (in Asia Minor) but began to be rejected due to the montanast heresy later in the second century. Which I why I said is was rather late in the canon in the East overall. Also because of this that is the reason that there are no reading from Revelation in the Three liturgies of the EO church. At least that is my recollection.I think you would benefit from the more recent scholarship of EO writer Constantinou, who demonstrates that Revelation was accepted in the East very early, and only later doubted, largely on account of Eusebius's doubts concerning the work.
This is true in my experience. The Orthodox do not do theology the way we do in the west. In fact the whole theological center is different. Not only the answers but the questions as well. We in the west find this at time to exasperating and sometimes the term neo-Platonism is thrown around. Which isn’t fair nor true.We dont have a systematic theology like western churches so you're not going to find a version of Aquinas Summa Theologica. If you want a basic overview, I recommend Kallistos Ware "The Orthodox Church" (covers history and basic theology) and "The Orthodox Way" (which covers EO thought). For an online summary, The Orthodox Faith by Fr. Hopko of blessed memory.
I have no idea. I am going by the quotation given by Athanasius377 above, which makes that claim. Since he is EO and since I heard (or thought I heard) that some EOs accept the same 27 books of the NT as RCs and Protestants, I assume there is some inter EO disagreement. If not, perhaps you could clarify.
The first titled Ecumenical Council was held in Nicea in 325, primarily to deal with the Arian controversy. It was attended by 318 bishops (at least recorded in the liturgy) although roughly 1,800 had been invited by the Emperor Constantine.
It's in her commentary on Andreas, which I think is the one you have. I would pretty much agree with you only I think she's right to argue that it was widely accepted in the East until the time the Eusebius, and that it was the latter's influence which caused it to be set aside.Thanks. I didn’t know she did a volume in the ancient fathers set I have. I am aware that Revelation was accepted early in Asia (in Asia Minor) but began to be rejected due to the montanast heresy later in the second century. Which I why I said is was rather late in the canon in the East overall. Also because of this that is the reason that there are no reading from Revelation in the Three liturgies of the EO church. At least that is my recollection.
We dont have a systematic theology like western churches so you're not going to find a version of Aquinas Summa Theologica. If you want a basic overview, I recommend Kallistos Ware "The Orthodox Church" (covers history and basic theology) and "The Orthodox Way" (which covers EO thought). For an online summary, The Orthodox Faith by Fr. Hopko of blessed memory.
pray for wisdom, I can use all of that I can get.
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The Church was given authority to bind and loose by Christ
Only what had already been bound in heaven and what had already been loosed. Not new things.
"Whatever you bind on earth will have already been bound in heaven" - that is the grammar of the Greek though "will have been bound" is sufficient enough to show that the action originated in heaven not on earth. The tense and mood is not future, as in whatever you bind on earth will BE bound in heaven.
Binding refers to a rabbinical practice under the old law of interpreting commands. One rabbi might "bind" the sabbath to a higher standard and another might loosen it.
Thus the language of the Pharisees who accused Jesus not of "breaking" the sabbath, but "loosening" it.
The first titled Ecumenical Council was held in Nicea in 325, primarily to deal with the Arian controversy. It was attended by 318 bishops (at least recorded in the liturgy) although roughly 1,800 had been invited by the Emperor Constantine.
This is true in my experience. The Orthodox do not do theology the way we do in the west. In fact the whole theological center is different. Not only the answers but the questions as well. We in the west find this at time to exasperating and sometimes the term neo-Platonism is thrown around. Which isn’t fair nor true.
Actually it is not.
Rejection of apostolic authorship led to severe questions about canonicity. Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in the early fourth century, was apparently influenced by the work of Dionysius and suggested that the book was written by a John the Elder of whom Papias spoke. Others in the East who questioned the work include Cyril of Jerusalem (315–86), Chrysostom (347–407), and Theodoret (386–457). It was not included among the canonical books at the Council of Laodicea (ca. 360) and was subsequently omitted from the Peshitta, the official Bible in Syriac-speaking Christian lands in the fifth century.
In the West from the second century on the Apocalypse had won wide acceptance. In time the East began to reverse its earlier negative position. In the fourth century Athanasius in Alexandria endorsed it without hesitation. The Third Council of Carthage (397) listed the Apocalypse as canonical and appropriate for public reading in services. When the decrees of Laodicea and Carthage were ratified at the Third Council of Constantinople (680), the Apocalypse received formal acceptance as NT scripture in the eastern church. This favorable opinion was due in part to the first Greek commentaries on Revelation, which appeared about the sixth century.
Mounce, R. H. (1997). The Book of Revelation (pp. 23–24). Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
We dont have a systematic theology like western churches so you're not going to find a version of Aquinas Summa Theologica. If you want a basic overview, I recommend Kallistos Ware "The Orthodox Church" (covers history and basic theology) and "The Orthodox Way" (which covers EO thought). For an online summary, The Orthodox Faith by Fr. Hopko of blessed memory.
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