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Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 5

Karl Joseph von Hefele · translated by William R. Clark and others · translation 1896

The standard council-by-council history, from the original documents: the councils 626 to 787.

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From the opening: Chapter I

Chapter I

The Occurrences Before the Sixth (Ecumenical Synod

Sec. 291. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy.

TN order to preserve entire the two natures in Christ, the J- divine and the human, the Nestorians had sacrificed the true unity of the Person. But in order, again, to save the latter, the permanent duality of the natures was given up by the Monophy sites, and the proposition was maintained, that Christ was of two natures, but that after the union of these at the Incarnation we should speak only of one nature. In opposition to both these errors, it was necessary to maintain both the duality of the natures and the unity of the Person, and the one as strongly as the other; and this was done by the Council of Chalcedon, by the doctrine, that both natures were united in the one Person of the Logos without confusion and without change, without severance and without separation (vol. iii. sec. 193).

The Council of Chalcedon had spoken only in general of the two natures which are united in Christ, and a series of new questions necessarily arose, when the two natures came to be considered apart in their elements and in their powers,

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Contents (154 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Bishop Hefele's Councils of the Church
  3. Late Bishop of Rottenburg, Formerly Professor of Theology in the University of Tubingen
  4. Title page (continued)
  5. Editor's Preface
  6. Editor's Preface (continued)
  7. Note on Indiction
  8. Author's Preface
  9. Author's Preface (continued)
  10. Author's Preface (continued)
  11. The Occurrences Before the Sixth Œcumenical Synod
  12. The Sixth Œcumenical Synod
  13. The Sixth Œcumenical Synod (continued)
  14. The Time from the End of the Sixth Oecumenical Council to the Beginning of the Dispute…
  15. History of the Controversy About Images Up to the Convocation of the Seventh Ecumenical…
  16. The Seventh Oecumenical Synod at Nicaea, A.d. 787
  17. Appendix
  18. Chapter I
  19. History of the Councils
  20. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy
  21. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy. O
  22. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy
  23. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy (continued)
  24. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy (continued)
  25. Rise of the Monothelite Heresy (continued)
  26. Synod at Constantinople, A.d. 626
  27. Synod at Constantinople, Ad. 626
  28. Cyrus of Alexandria Unites the Monophysites
  29. Sophronius Comes to the Defence of Dyothelitism
  30. The Seeming '"juste Milieu " of Sergius
  31. The Seeming "Juste Milieu " of Sergius
  32. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair
  33. History of the Councils
  34. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair
  35. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  36. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  37. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  38. Letter of Pope Honorius Tn the Monothelite Affair
  39. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair
  40. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  41. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  42. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  43. Letter of Pope Honorius in the Monothelite Affair (continued)
  44. The second fragment, at the close of the letter, runs
  45. Ecthesis of the Emperor Heraclius, Ad. 638
  46. Ecthesis of the Emperor Heraclius, A.d. 638
  47. Two Synods at Constantinople, A.d. 638 and 639
  48. Death of Pope Honorius
  49. The Synods of Orleans and Cyprus. Pope Theodore
  50. The Synods of Orleans and Cyprus. Pope Theodore (continued)
  51. Abbot Maximus and His Disputation with Pyrrhus
  52. Abbot Maximus and His Disputation with Pyrrhus (continued)
  53. Abbot Maximus and His Disputation with Pyrrhus (continued)
  54. Abbot Maximus and His Disputation with Pyrrhus (continued)
  55. Abbot Maximus and His Disputation with Pyrrhus (continued)
  56. Synods for the Condemnation of Monothelitism
  57. Synods for the Condemnation of Monothelitism (continued)
  58. Paul of Constantinople Writes to Pope Theodore
  59. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649
  60. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  61. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  62. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  63. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  64. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  65. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  66. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649. ILL
  67. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649
  68. Pope Martin I. and the Lateran Synod of A.d. 649 (continued)
  69. Letters of Pope Martin I
  70. Pope Martin I. Becomes a Martyr for Dyothelitism
  71. Abbot Maximus and His Disciples Become Martyrs
  72. Abbot Maximus and His Disciples Become Martyrs (continued)
  73. Abbot Maximus and His Disciples Become Martyrs (continued)
  74. Abbot Maximus and His Disciples Become Martyrs (continued)
  75. The Sixth Œcumenical Synod
  76. Emperor Constantine Desires a Great Conference
  77. Western Preparatory Synods, A.d. 680
  78. First Session of the Oecumenical Synod
  79. First Session of the Oecumenical Synod (continued)
  80. From the Second to the Seventh Session
  81. From the Second to the Seventh Session (continued)
  82. Ninth and Tenth Sessions
  83. The second shorter division contained extracts from
  84. Eleventh and Twelfth Sessions
  85. From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Session
  86. From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Session (continued)
  87. Confirmation of Sixth Oecumenical Synod
  88. The Anathema on Pope Honorius
  89. The Anathema on Pope Honorius (continued)
  90. The Time from the End of the Sixth Oecumenical Council to the Beginning of the Dispute…
  91. Acts of Sixth Œcumenical Council Examined
  92. The Quinisext or Trullan Synod, A.d
  93. The Quinisext or Trullan Synod, A.d (continued)
  94. Judgment of Rome on the Trullan Canons
  95. Judgment of Home on the Trullan Canons
  96. The Western Synods in the Eighth Century
  97. The Western Synods in the Eighth Century (continued)
  98. The Western Synods in the Eighth Century (continued)
  99. Monothelitism Renewed and Suppressed in the East
  100. Monothelitism Renewed and Suppressed in the East (continued)
  101. History of the Controversy About Images Up to the Convocation of the Seventh Ecumenical…
  102. History of the Controversy About Images Up to the Convocation of the Seventh Ecumenical… (continued)
  103. History of the Controversy About Images Up to the Convocation of the Seventh Ecumenical… (continued)
  104. The Emperor Constantine Copronymus
  105. The Mock-Synod at Constantinople, A.d. 754
  106. The Mock-Synod at Constantinople, A.d. 754 (continued)
  107. The Mock-Synod at Constantinople, A.d. 754 (continued)
  108. The Mock-Synod at Constantinople, A.d. 75l
  109. Carrying Out of the Synodal Decrees. Abbot Stephen
  110. Church States Threatened by the Greeks
  111. Cruelties of the Emperor Constantine Copronymus
  112. Cruelties of the Emperor Constantine Copronymus (continued)
  113. Cruelties of the Emperor Constantine Copronymus (continued)
  114. Cruelties of the Emperor Constantine Copronymus (continued)
  115. Eastern Patriarchs Favour Images
  116. Eastern Patriarchs Favour Images (continued)
  117. Contests for the Holy See
  118. Contests for the Holy See (continued)
  119. Contests for the Holy See (continued)
  120. Contests for the Holy See (continued)
  121. The Emperor Leo IV
  122. The Emperor Leo IV (continued)
  123. The Seventh Œcumenical Synod at Nicaea, A.D. 787
  124. Preparations for Convocation of Oecumenical Synod
  125. Preparations for Convocation of Cecumenical Synod
  126. Preparations for Convocation of Oecumenical Synod
  127. Preparations for Convocation of Œcumenical Synod
  128. Preparations for Convocation of Œcumenical Synod (continued)
  129. Preparations for Convocation of Oecumenical Synod
  130. Preparations for Convocation of Cecumenical Synod
  131. Holding of an Cecumenical Synod Miscarries
  132. Convocation of the Synod of Nic ea
  133. Convocation of the Synod of Nicaea
  134. The First Session of Nicaea
  135. The Fourth Session
  136. The Fourth Session (continued)
  137. Canons of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod
  138. Canons of the Seventh Cecumenical Synod
  139. The Rest of the Synodal Acts
  140. The Rest of the Synodal Acts (continued)
  141. Sketch of the Occurrences in the East
  142. Sketch of the Occurrences in the East (continued)
  143. Postscript on the Iconoclastic Controversy
  144. Postscript on the Iconoclastic Controversy (continued)
  145. Postscript on the Iconoclastic Controversy (continued)
  146. Postscript on the Iconoclastic Controversy (continued)
  147. Postscript on the Iconoclastic Controversy (continued)
  148. Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh
  149. Bishop Hefele's Councils of the Church
  150. Professor Schaff's Church History
  151. Publishers' Notice on Completion of the Series
  152. The Foreign Theological Library
  153. The Ante-Nicene Christian Library
  154. St. Augustine's Works

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Chicago
Karl Joseph von Hefele. Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 5. Translated by William R. Clark and others. Internet Archive, translation 1896. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil05hefeuoft
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Karl Joseph von Hefele. Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 5. Translated by William R. Clark and others, Internet Archive, translation 1896. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil05hefeuoft
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Karl Joseph von Hefele (translation 1896). Hefele: A History of the Councils of the Church, Vol. 5 (William R. Clark and others, Trans.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historyofcouncil05hefeuoft

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