The Council of Nicea 9781607241805, 1607241803
Extracted from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley's Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church, this set of lectures focuses
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LECTURE II. THE COUNCIL OF NICÆA
LECTURE III. THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL
LECTURE IV. THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL
LECTURE V. THE CONCLUSION OF THE COUNCIL
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The Council of Nicea
Analecta Gorgiana
165
Series Editor George Kiraz
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The Council of Nicea
Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church
Arthur Stanley
1 gorgias press 2009
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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