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Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 2

Karl Joseph von Hefele · translated by William R. Clark and others · translation 1876

The standard council-by-council history, from the original documents: the councils 326 to 429.

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From the opening: The Time Between the First Œcumenical Council and the Synod of Sardica

Sec. 45. The First Period after the Synod of Nica.

N consequence of the decrees of Nica, the Emperor Constantine, as we have seen, exiled Arius and the two Egyptian bishops, Theonas and Secundas, with the priests who adhered to them, to Illyria, and adopted other means for the immediate extermination of Arianism. He ordered the books of Arius and his friends to be burnt, threatened those who concealed them with death, and forbade even the name~of Arians." But still the heretical fire was not thereby extinguished; nay, it went on smouldering in secret all the more, when several bishops, above all the highly-esteemed Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Theognis of Nicea, who, without being thorough-going Arians, still held Subordinationist views, from fear of the Emperor, and as a matter of form only, subscribed the Nicene Creed? This, especially the doctrine of the opoovctos, had always been regarded by them with suspicion, as injurious to the first of the two ideas, which must be comprehended in the notion of the Person of Christ, ie. Personality and Divinity, by not strictly enough maintaining the personal distinction between the Father and the Son, while the second idea is exaggerated to the Sabellianist identity of the Son with the Father. If a document found in Socrates, of

1 Cf. supr. vol. i. p. 297. ? Upon the theological views of Eusebius of Nicomedia, cf. Jahn (Repet in Gottingen), Marcellus von Ancyra, 1867, p. 37 sq. IL. A

which we shall speak later, may be trusted,’ these bishops, so-called Eusebians, had not joined in the anathema pronounced against the person of Arius, but accepted the Creed, without admitting that Arius had taught the errors of which he was accused, “thas availing themselves of the well-known distinction between question du fait and du droit. ?

It would have been wonderful if, in Egypt as well as in Alexandria, where before the Council of Nice Arianism had already taken such deep root, it had not tried to break out afresh. When this happened, and the Emperor, therefore, again banished from Egypt several Alexandrians who had fallen from the Nicene faith, and “relighted the torch of disunion,” then (as he himself relates”), “ Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis not only sided with them, and took measures for their safety, but took part in their wickedness, and received them into the communion of the Church,” so that Constantine banished them…

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Contents (120 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Editor's Preface
  4. Author’s Preface to Second Edition of First Volume
  5. X Author’s Preface to Second Edition of First Volume
  6. Author’s Preface to Second Volume
  7. The Time Between the First Œcumenical Council and the Synod of Sardica
  8. The Synods of Sardica and Philippopolis
  9. The Interval Between the Synod of Sardica and the
  10. Second General Council
  11. Synod of Ancyra in 358, and the Third Sirmian Synod
  12. Synod at Alexandria
  13. The Synods of Laodicea and Gangra
  14. The Second General Council at Constantinople in 381
  15. The Time Between the Second and Third General Councils
  16. Appendix
  17. History of the Councils
  18. The Time Between the First Œcumenical Council and the Synod of Sardica
  19. The First Period After the Synod of Nicaea
  20. Synod of Antioch
  21. Synod of Antioch (continued)
  22. Arius Received into the Church. Athanasius Deposed
  23. Arius Received into the Church—athanasius Deposed
  24. Arius Received into the Church—athanasius Deposed (continued)
  25. The Arians Again Gain Strength. Hg
  26. The Arians Again Gain Strength
  27. Synod of Alexandria
  28. Synod of Alexandria, 339, Etc
  29. Synod of Alexandria, 339, Etc (continued)
  30. Roman and Egyptian Synod in 341
  31. Roman and Egyptian Synod in 341. -55
  32. Roman and Egyptian Synod in 341. -55 (continued)
  33. Part ii. p. 59 (continued)
  34. Vacancy of the See of Constantinople
  35. Vacancy of the See of Constantinople (continued)
  36. The Synods of Sardica and Philippopolis
  37. Date of the Synod of Sardica
  38. Date of the Synod of Sardica (continued)
  39. The Eusebians Take No Part in the Synod
  40. The Eusebians Take No Part in the Synod (continued)
  41. Energetic Action of the Synod of Sardica
  42. Energetic Action of the Synod of Sardica (continued)
  43. The Pretended Creed of Sardica
  44. The third part of the canon makes, in one instance, an
  45. The third part of the canon makes, in one instance, an (continued)
  46. The third part of the canon makes, in one instance, an (continued)
  47. Rule concerning the Celebration of Easter
  48. The Sardican Documents
  49. The Sardican Documents (continued)
  50. The Sardican Documents (continued)
  51. Is the Synod of Sardica (Ecumenical?
  52. The Interval Between the Council of Sardica and the Second General Council
  53. Return of S. Athanasius, Etc
  54. Return of S. Athanasius, Etc (continued)
  55. Synod of Carthage. '
  56. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 351
  57. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 351 (continued)
  58. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 331
  59. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 331 (continued)
  60. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 331 (continued)
  61. New Synod and First Formula of Sirmium in 331 (continued)
  62. Divisions Among the Eusebians, Etc
  63. Second Great Synod of Sirmium
  64. Second Great Synod of Sirmium (continued)
  65. Synod of Ancyra in 358, Etc (continued)
  66. Synod of Ancyra in 358, Etc (continued)
  67. Synods of Paris and Antioch About
  68. Synod at Alexandria
  69. Synod at Alexandria. :
  70. Synods at Alexandria and Antioch in 383
  71. Valentinian and Valens, Etc
  72. Valentinian and Valens, Etc (continued)
  73. Pope Damasus and His Synods, Etc
  74. Pope Damasus and His Synods, Etc (continued)
  75. Third and Fourth Roman Synods Under Damasus, Etc
  76. The Emperor Theodosius the Great
  77. The Synods of Laodicea and Gangra
  78. The Synods of Laodicea and Gangra (continued)
  79. The Synods of Laodicea and Gangra (continued)
  80. The Synods of Laodicea and Gangra (continued)
  81. The Second General Council at Constantinople in 381
  82. Convocation of the Second General Council, Etc
  83. Convocation of the Second General Council, Etc (continued)
  84. First Act of the Second General Council
  85. First Act of the Second General Council (continued)
  86. The Tome and the Creed
  87. The Tome and the Creed (continued)
  88. The Second Council Receives Imperial Confirmation
  89. Council of Latins, namely, the prolongation of the Meletian
  90. Book VIII
  91. Synods at Aquileia and Milan in 381
  92. The Synods at Constantinople and Rome in 392
  93. Synods at Bordeaux (Burdigalensis) in 384, Etc
  94. Synods at Bordeaux (Burdigalensis) in 384, Etc (continued)
  95. Synods at Antioch, Sida, and Carthage
  96. Synods at Rome and Milan in 390
  97. Synods at Rome and Milan in 390 (continued)
  98. The second series contains the following :’
  99. The second series contains the following :’ (continued)
  100. The second series contains the following :’ (continued)
  101. The Four First Carthaginian Synods, Etc
  102. Synod; and the Ballerini have shown that many old codices
  103. Synods at Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Etc
  104. Roman Synod Under Pope Innocent I. in 402
  105. Synods at Seleucia, Ptolemais, and Braga
  106. Synod was afforded by two Gallican bishops, Heros of Arles
  107. The African General Synod, Etc
  108. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae
  109. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae (continued)
  110. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae (continued)
  111. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae (continued)
  112. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae (continued)
  113. The Controversy concerning Appeals to Rome
  114. The Synods at Carthage, in Numidia, Cilicia, Etc
  115. Synod against Leporius, and Smaller Synods
  116. Synod against Leporius, and Smaller Synods (continued)
  117. Edited by Marcus Dods, D.d
  118. Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.d., and James Donaldson, Ll.d
  119. Tertullian against Marcion
  120. Foreign Theological Library

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Chicago
Karl Joseph von Hefele. Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 2. Translated by William R. Clark and others. Internet Archive, translation 1876. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil02hefeuoft
MLA
Karl Joseph von Hefele. Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 2. Translated by William R. Clark and others, Internet Archive, translation 1876. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil02hefeuoft
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Karl Joseph von Hefele (translation 1876). Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 2 (William R. Clark and others, Trans.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil02hefeuoft

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