2:2 - Ecumenical Councils
A - The First and Second Councils The First Council was held in Nicaea (Turkey) in the year 325 under the presidency of Eftsatius of Antioch (according to the opinion of investigators […]
1:5 - The Fifth Ecumenical Council
The matter did not stop at the religious conflict cloaked in nationalism, but rather went beyond it to a social and economic conflict. The Greek upper class was a large capitalist class.
1:4 – The Fourth Ecumenical Council and its results (Eutychus and Dioscorus)
This text is a stage only. The dilemma was not completely resolved. Therefore, in response to the separation of the Nestorians, who weakened the hypostasis and weakened the union, fanaticism was produced
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1:3 - The conflict over the doctrine of the divine incarnation - The Third Council (Apollinaris, Theodore of Missis, Nestorius)
But theologians soon turned to the question of the nature of the “union” between the divine essence of Jesus and his human essence. In Antioch, he believes,
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem
A saint from Antioch, Sophronius, whose name means “chastity,” was born in Damascus, to two pious and chaste parents, Planthus and Myra. That was about
That there are two actions in our Lord Jesus Christ
The action of Christ is of course twofold: we say that there are two actions in our Lord Jesus Christ, because He is equally His - as a God equal to the Father in
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In the duality of the will of our Lord Jesus Christ and the freedom of His action
Every essence has its own will and action: Therefore, since Christ has two natures, he also has two natural wills and two natural actions, and since the hypostasis of his natures
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Incarnation
1- The purpose of the incarnation: “the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages for our glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7). “The secret hidden from time immemorial lies in God, the Creator
Phokas and Hercules
Phocas's arrival to power: The soldiers rebelled in the fall of the year 602 and crossed the Danube under the command of Phocas, one of their officers, and headed towards the capital of the state.
The Church in times of Islamic invasions
Patriarch Macedonius: (628-640) The Jews tortured Anastasius II, successor of the two apostles, captured him, tortured him, and dragged him through the streets of Antioch on the run, and he died as a martyr.
Maximus the Confessor
His life: The seventh century was also a century of turmoil, wars, and religious problems. After Eutyches, the heresy of nature and one will came in a period
Sixth Ecumenical Council - Third Council of Constantinople
Constantine IV: (668-685) Constantine III thought poorly of his brother Theodosius, so he dressed him as a monastic and then ordered him killed. So his conscience aroused him and he became
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