The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553 - 2 vol set
With Related Texts on the Three Chapters Controversy
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
The Council of Constantinople of 553, often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council, has been described as by far the most problematic of all of the church councils. The methods employed by the Council and the domineering emperor who controlled it included brutality towards opponents and the falsification of documents, among other charges. This timely and detailed translation by acclaimed ecclesiastical scholar Richard Price argues, however, that the theology of the council was both opportune and constructive and that its contributions to Christian unity was well-intentioned and not wholly unsuccessful, as he reevaluates material long neglected by historians of the period.
VOLUME ONE
Preface
Abbreviations
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
I. The Road from Chalcedon 451-518
II. The Ecclesiastical Policy of the Emperor Justinian
III. The Trials of Pope Vigilius
IV. The Theology: Problems and Solutions
V. The Three Chapters
1. Theodore of Mopsuestia
2. The Controversial Writings of Theodoret
3. The Letter of Ibas to Mari the Persian
VI. The Reception of the Council
VII. Texts and Versions
LETTER FROM AFRICA (545-6)
- Bishop Pontianus to Justinian
- Ferrandus, Letter 6 to Deacon of Rome
JUSTINIAN, EDIT ON THE ORTHODOX FAITH (511)
LETTERS BY OR ON POPE VIGILIUS
1. Letter of Excommunication to Ascidas and Menas
2. Letter from the Church of Milan to the Frankish Envoys
3. Encyclical Letter, Dum in Sanctae Euphemiae
THE ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF 553
Session I, 5 May
Session II, 8 May
Session III, 9 May
Session IV, 12 May
Session V, 17 May
VOLUME TWO
Abbreviations
THE ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF 553
Session VI, 19 May
Session VII, 26 May
Session VIII, 2 June
VIGILIUS, THE TWO CONSTITUTA (553-4)
1. First Constitutum
2. Second Letter to Eutychius of Constantinople
3. Second Constitutum
APPENDICES
I. The Anti-Origenist Canons (543 and 553)
1. Canons of 543
2. Letter of Justinian to Council (553)
3. Canons of 553
II. The Attendance and Subscription Lists
MAPS
- Patriarchates and Provinces
- The Balkans
- Western Asia Minor
- Eastern Asia Minor
- Syria and Palestine
- Egypt
- Italy and Africa
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Literature
INDICES
- Persons in the Texts
- Documents
- The Commentary
History: British and Irish History
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