The Third World Council That Is The Third Council Of The Whole Christian World East And West Which Was Held A D 431 At Ephesus In Asia Volume 3

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230246444
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book The Third World Council; That Is, the Third Council of the Whole Christian World, East and West, Which Was Held A. D. 431 at Ephesus in Asia Volume 3 written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... treat of the errors of some of them. Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, though on some points not perfect, were nevertheless the soundest of the Fathers. Some of the alleged opinions of Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and others for creature invocation, or on the Eucharist, or for customs leading to idolatry, are condemned expressly or impliedly by Ephesus. In the struggle against relic worship, saint worship, and the superstitions of his time, Vigilantius, the Presbyter, of Spain, was one of the noblest and best of the Fathers of the fourth century and the fifth, though he may have had a few defects. We hope to speak of him in another work. Judged by the decisions of Ephesus, he was vastly nearer Orthodoxy than the relic worshipper and, so far, heretic, Jerome, who blackguarded him and misrepresented him. Freemantle's account of him in the article Vigilantius in Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography compared with the quotations, from the original sources in note 6, page 457, volume I of Smith's Gieseler's Church History, show him to have been in the main a wise and holy reformer. ARTICLE XII. CREATURE WORSHIP. The Sins of Idolaters: that is I. the worship of created persons by invocation and other Acts of worship, and II. the worship of mere inanimate things, suck as pictures graven images, crosses painted and graven, altars, communion tables, the Bible or any part of it, etc., and III. How they arejorbidden In God's Word And By The "one, holy, universal and apostolic Church"1 in its Six Sole Ecumenical Synods. "Take... the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God," Ephesians VI, 17. "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou...