In view of such plain propositions, we should like to be informed how inerrancy or infallibility can be attributed to an oecumenical council?
Yet the weight of imperial power and domination does not do away with that essential condition of anoecumenical council.
Wherefore, they wander away from the right path of truth who assert that it is lawful to appeal from the judgments of the Roman pontiffs to an oecumenical council, as if to an authority superior to the Roman pontiff.
For he denies the unerring authority of oecumenical councils under the conditions in which it has always been received as a dogma by Catholic theologians.
Without doubt this expression is incorrect; the Christian emperors aided the meeting of oecumenical councils; they never convened them.
Deprive an oecumenical synod of the privilege of debate, and you strip it at once of its true character and the bishops of their manhood.
He himself makes an extensive use of this great privilege; for, according to him, since the ninth century there were no truly oecumenical councils; the whole church has been forced and cajoled into giving a wrong testimony.
From an oecumenical point of view, Spalato is yet more.
During this time the council of Basel, though abandoned by Cesarini and most of its members, persisted none the less, under the presidency of Cardinal Aleman, in affirming its oecumenical character.
The Advocate and Grotius recommended a provincial synod first and, should that not succeed in adjusting the differences of church government, then the convocation of a general or oecumenical synod.
The explanation, of course, of such universality as Christianity has attained is mainly due to the influence of the cosmopolitan Saul of Tarsus, though the idea of an Oecumenical Society was by no means his original thought.
All truth" summed up in Thirty-nine Articles, or a score of Oecumenical Councils!
In 1870 she obtained recognition as a nationality in the Ottoman Empire, her Church being detached from the control of the Oecumenical Patriarch of the Greeks and placed under an Exarch.
At the Vatican OEcumenical Council of 1870 it was less by his speeches than by his work in private among the assembled prelates that he served the Infallibilist cause.
The first trace of system is in the limited right of appeal given by the first oecumenical council of Nicaea and its provision that episcopal sentences or those of provincial synods on appeal were to be recognized throughout the world.
The fifth oecumenical council came nearest to so doing, in the case of Vigilius.
In both cases, apparently, an oecumenical synod ignored the Roman deposition and judged the alleged offences of the respective patriarchs in first and last instance.
The sixth oecumenical synod decreed that the dead pope Honorius should be "cast out from the holy Catholic Church of God" and anathematized, a sentence approved by the reigning pope Leo II.
No oecumenical synod has tried a patriarch of Old Rome while yet in the flesh.
The Church of Cyprus has been autocephalous since at any rate the oecumenical synod of Ephesus in 431.
Synods are of less authority than general or OEcumenical Councils.
Agatho had been represented at the sixth oecumenical council (that of Constantinople in 681), where Pope Honorius I.
As to the development of dogma, it seems to have closed in the Eastern Church with the seventh Oecumenical Council (787).
This is undoubtedly correct so long as our view is limited to the history of dogma of the Greek Church in the second period, and the development of it by the Oecumenical Synods.
It was fitting that the first Oecumenical Conference should meet in City Road, the cathedral of Methodism.
The growing affection among Methodists of all branches made the idea of an Oecumenical Conference practicable.
The Oecumenical Conference did not aim at determining any debated condition of Church membership, or at defining any controverted doctrine, or settling any question of ritual; it met for consultative, not legislative purposes.
The other event of the year was the meeting of the second Oecumenical Conference in October, at Washington, in the country where Methodism obtained great triumphs.
After the settlement of the strife in Germany he called together a Council which is distinguished as the Fourth Lateran or the Twelfth OEcumenical Council.
He would certainly, if asked, agree with the view of Cardinal Jacobazzi, about 1530, that the Pope could hold an OEcumenical Council with one Bishop only and issue an infallible decree.
He shows (page 11), how up to the eleventh century every Pope swore to the truth that an OEcumenical Council had condemned a Pope for heresy.
The OEcumenical Tridentine Synod, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, ordains and decrees, etc.
It is strictly true that the new order of business, if it is carried out, must raise the greatest doubts as to the OEcumenical character of the Council among all thinking Catholics, especially such as are familiar with the history of Councils.
But I must relate what occurred to-day at a farewell audience given to some Maltese Knights, who had come to exercise their privilege of keeping guard at an OEcumenical Council.
Why then doubt the good results and oecumenical character of the Council and the validity and future recognition of its decrees?
New declarations on the rights of the State and the conditions of a really OEcumenical Council, directly condemning the new Roman system of the Syllabus and Infallibilism, may perhaps appear in a few days.
He says indeed that "whoever does not submit to the decisions of an OEcumenical Council does not deserve the name of Catholic," but he adds, "if the indispensable conditions have been observed in holding the Council.
The coming of the OEcumenical Council has greatly inflated the prices; Rome is crammed.
The old enactments were solemnly renewed by the official representatives of Christendom, assembled in OEcumenical Council at Basle, where they had declared their infallibility, and even sat in judgment on the papacy.
Thus the OEcumenical Council, which gave itself out as inspired by the Holy Ghost, designed the conversion of all Jews.
Athanasius is a rebel, the chief violator of universal concord and oecumenical peace.
If the Council of the Vatican has not been oecumenical and free, then manifestly no council in the past has ever been.
Before the council, discussion was allowable; since the definition proclaimed by an oecumenical council united to the Pope, all discussion is closed.
This took, place at the fist oecumenical council, which was convened in Nicaea (q.
A synod of bishops, monks and doctors meets regularly to transact under his eye the business of the convent and the oecumenical affairs of the church; but its decisions are subject to the veto of a Russian procurator.
Council of Nicaea, it is said that the sixth oecumenical council made reference to such consultation.
Constantine is supposed to have consulted Sylvester, Bishop of Rome, before issuing his summons to the bishops to attend the first oecumenical council, because in the year 680 A.
As the title indicates, this volume of five hundred pages does not bring the history beyond the proceedings, canons, and creeds of 'the first Oecumenical Council.
It is not for Science to compose these contesting claims; it is not for her to determine whether the criterion of truth for the religious man shall be found in the Bible, or in the oecumenical council, or in the pope.
There are many who affirm that, if infallibility exists anywhere, it is in oecumenical councils, and yet such councils have not always agreed with each other.
It is unlawful to appeal from his judgments to an Oecumenical Council, as if to an earthly arbiter superior to him.
He announced his intention of convoking an Oecumenical Council.
Assuredly no more remarkable event has occurred in this nineteenth century than the meeting of this Oecumenical Council of the Vatican, formally opened in Rome on December 8th last, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
It should be borne in mind that this definition of the oecumenical synod, A.
An oecumenical council is, as the church teaches and every Catholic is bound to believe, infallibly directed and assisted by the Holy Spirit.
It was his desire, at as early a day as circumstances would allow, to convene the bishops of the Catholic world in an oecumenical council.
We have no doubt that the coming Oecumenical Council will speak in yet stronger terms in favor of a reform so vital to the interests of religion in the whole world.
She devotes to the work her most solemn and effective mode of action--an oecumenical council.
At all events, the basilica of St. Peter is certainly the most suitable theatre in the whole world in which to assemble an oecumenical council.
In the second place, the careful study of the earlier oecumenicalcouncils will persuade any honest mind that the papal supremacy was firmly established in the heart of Christendom.
To elude it they had recourse to the last phrase, "as is contained in the acts of oecumenical councils and in the sacred canons," and appealed to tradition to explain the meaning of the fathers of Florence.
But to the Catholic this oecumenical council has a higher character.
It might be "a truly Oecumenical Council of virtuous intellects," or it might spring from one "free people, which had found brotherhood in the worship of duty and the ideal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oecumenical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
