The Council of Nicea: Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church 9781463218096

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The Council of Nicea

Analecta Gorgiana

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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