单词 | ecumenical council |
释义 | ecumenical council (once / 37762 pages) n WORD FAMILY ecumenical council: ecumenical councils USAGE EXAMPLESHe has lived in Crown Heights for 12 years and started working there in 1987, as a community activist for the Brooklyn Ecumenical Council. New York Times(Jul 12, 2013) I suggest the next pope convoke another ecumenical council and enlist all the world’s Catholics as participants in his to-do list. Washington Post(Mar 06, 2013) It laughs at presbyteries and synods, at ecumenical councils and the impotent thunders of Sinai. Ingersoll, Robert Green, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, V...(2012) n (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline the first seven councils through 787 are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church Hypo|Hyper First Council of Nicaea, Nicaea the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism Constantinople, First Council of Constantinoplethe second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed Council of Ephesus, Ephesusthe third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius Chalcedon, Council of Chalcedonthe fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ Constantinople, Second Council of Constantinoplethe fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic Constantinople, Third Council of Constantinoplethe sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaeathe seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images council (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine |
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