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The Council of Nicea

Analecta Gorgiana

165

Series Editor George Kiraz

Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.

The Council of Nicea

Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church

Arthur Stanley

1 gorgias press 2009

Gorgias Press LLC, 180 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com Copyright © 2009 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in 1907 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC.

ISBN 978-1-60724-180-5 ISSN 1935-6854 The book is an extract from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, lectures

on the History

of the Eastern Church, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1907.

Printed in the United States of America

LECTURE

II

T H E COUNCIL OF NICFFIA

THE authorities for the Council of Nicsea are as follows ; — I. T h e original documents. a. T h e Creed. b. T h e T w e n t y Canons. c. T h e Official Letters.

Contained in Mansi's Councils, ii. 625701, and the historians given below.

1. Letter of Constantine, convoking the Bishops from Ancyra. (Mr. Harris Cowper, Analecta Niceena, 21.) 2. Letter of Constantine to the Bishops, denouncing the books of Arius. 3. Letter of Constantine against Arius. 4. Letter of Constantine to the Bishops, containing the decree on Easter. 5. Letter of the Council to the Church of Alexandria, on the three points of debate. 6. Letter of Eusebius to the Church of Caesarea, Theod. i., explaining his subscriptions. 7. Letters of Eusebius and Theogois, praying for readmission. 8. Letter