The Church of the Ancient Councils: The Disciplinary Work of the First Four Ecumenical Councils
By Peter L'Huillier.
Description
Their continuing influence can still be felt in the modern codifications of the Roman Catholic Church and elsewhere among Western Christians. For the Orthodox East, however, their importance is even greater. Constituting the core of the corpus canonum common to all the Orthodox Churches, these canons remain the primary point of reference for their institutional life. Given the great importance of these canons of the ancient ecumenical councils, what precisely do they say and mean? What was the intention of their authors, the fathers of those councils? With the present work, His Eminence Arc...
ISBN(s)
0881410071, 9780881410075
