The idea of Nicaea in the early church councils, AD 431-451 / Mark S. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Mark S., author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies.

International policy exchange series.

Oxford early Christian studies

International policy exchange series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Councils and synods, Ecumenical--History.

Councils and synods, Ecumenical.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Council of Nicaea--(1st : 325 : Nicaea, Turkey).

Council of Nicaea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This title examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-5th century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic driving - and unsettling - the conciliar activity of these decades. Mark S. Smith identifies a set of inherited assumptions concerning the role that Nicaea was expected to play in orthodox discourse - namely, that it possessed unique authority as a conciliar event, and sole sufficiency as a credal statement.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-257215-6

0-19-187293-8

0-19-257214-8