{"id":12544,"date":"2012-10-09T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:52:38","slug":"church-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/church-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Council-of-Jerusalem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"225\" \/>Two weeks ago in our Acts of the Apostles Bible study we covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=acts%2015&amp;version=NIV\">Acts 15<\/a> where we heard about the Council of Jerusalem in AD 52.<\/p>\n<p>In our discussion we also spoke about Ecumenical Councils, when the bishops of the world are gathered together to settle issues facing the Church. I said I would put something up here listing those councils. Here they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD\u00a0325: Nicea<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> The Divinity of Christ<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 381: Constantinople<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> The Divinity of Holy Spirit<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 431: Ephesus<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> Mary as &#8220;Theotokos&#8221; (&#8220;God Bearer&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 46I: Chalcedon<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> The two natures in Christ<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #888888\"><strong>AD 476: \u00a0The Fall of Rome<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 553: Constantinople\u00a0II<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> Condemned a variety of writings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 680: Constantinople III<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> The two wills in Christ<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 787: Nicea II<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> The veneration of images<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 869: Constantinople IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #888888\"><strong>AD 1054 Eastern Schism. The East has never held another council.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1123, 1139, 1179, 1215: Lateran I, II, III and IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1245 &amp; 1274: Lyons I &amp; II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1311: Vienne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1414: Constance\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Western Schism<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #888888\"><strong>AD 1453 Fall of Constantinople<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1512: Lateran V<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1545: Trent<\/strong><br \/>\nIssue:<em> Dealt with Luther&#8217;s teachings and made Church reforms<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1869: Vatican I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>AD 1963: Vatican II<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago in our Acts of the Apostles Bible study we covered Acts 15 where we heard about the Council of Jerusalem in AD 52. In our discussion we also spoke about Ecumenical Councils, when the bishops of the world are gathered together to settle issues facing the Church. I said I would put something up here listing those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[38,46,53,2969,728],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-catholic-church","tag-council","tag-ecumenical-council","tag-featured","tag-jerusalem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56569,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/56569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}