The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon by Michael Gaddis (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon by Michael Gaddis, Richard Price The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries. Theological division, political rivalry and sectarian violence combined to produce what ultimately became separate Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches, a schism that persists to this day. Whether seen as a milestone in the development of orthodox doctrine or as a divisive and misguided cause of schism, Chalcedon is chiefly remembered for its Definition of Faith, a classic expression of Christian belief in Christ as both God and man. The council also dealt with other contentious issues relating to individuals and to the rights of various sees; its famous Canon 28 was crucial in the development of the patriarchate of Constantinople. Little attention, however, has been devoted to the process by which these results were reached, the day-by-day deliberations of the council as revealed in its Acts. These are particularly illuminating for the politics of the late antique church and its relations with the civil power, and contain moments of high drama. This edition, based on both the Greek and Latin versions of the Acts, is the first translation in a modern western language, and the first annotated edition. In addition to the minutes, it includes a selection of the attendant documentation, relating to imperial policy and the stance of the papacy. Author Biography Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022). Michael Gaddis is assistant professor of History at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He specializes in the Late Antique and Early Medieval History. Table of Contents Volume One Preface Abbreviations GENERAL INTRODUCTION I. Church Councils and Church Government II. The Christological Crisis: The Two Councils of Ephesu III. The Council of Chalcedon IV. Chalcedons Legacy V. The Theology of Chalcedon VI. Composition and Transmission of the Acts DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE COUNCIL SESSION I, 8 October 451 Debate over Ephesus II; Home Synod of 448 Volume Two Numbering of the Sessions Abbreviations SESSION II, 10 October Debate over the faith SESSION III, 13 October Trial of Dioscorus SESSION IV, 17 October Tome of Leo, Egyptian Bishops and Constantinopolitan Monks SESSION ON CAROSUS AND DOROTHEUS, 20 October SESSION ON PHOTIUS AND EUSTATHIUS, 20 October SESSION V, 22 October The Definition of the Faith SESSION vi, 25 October Promulgation of the Definition SESSION VII, 26 October Patriarchate of Jerusalem SESSION VIII, 26 October Theodoret of Cyrrhus SESSION IX, 26 October Ibas of Edessa (1) SESSION X, 27 October Ibas of Edessa (2) SESSION ON DOMNUS, 27 October Volume Three Numbering of the Sessions Abbreviations SESSION XI, 29 October Bassianus and Stephen of Ephesus (1) SESSION XII, 30 October Bassianus and Stephen of Ephesus (2) SESSION XIII, 30 October Nicomedia and Nicaea SESSION XIV, 31 October Athanasius and Sabinianus of Perrhe SESSION XV, 31 October Leo, Letter 93 SESSION XVI, 1 November Canon 28 CANONS 1-27 DOCUMENTS AFTER THE COUNCIL APPENDICES 1: The Documentary Collections 2: Attendance and Ecumenicity GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY MAPS 1. Dioceses and Provinces 2. The Balkans 3. Western Asia Minor 4. Eastern Asia Minor 5. Syria, Palestine, and Cyprus 6. Egypt INDICES (A) Personal names (1) Bishop, Clerics and Monks (2) Secular Dignitaries (B) Sees by province (C) Documents (1) Conciliar Acts and Decrees (2) Conciliar Canons (3) Florilegia (4) Documents from individuals (D) Topics Review What a pleasure to take up this wonderful three volume edition of the Acts of the Council. There is much more of interest in these volumes and they will be useful sources for reflecting on our own Oriental Orthodox response to Chalcedon. A new paperback edition has now been produced by the Liverpool University Press and this will make this valuable resource even more affordable. ... these volumes should be present in all libraries of theological institutes and seminaries... On the shelf of every one engaged in the study of the Early Church and its theology. Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700. Edited by Richard Price and Mary Whitby. Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts 1. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2009. vii + 205 pp. GBP65. ISBN 978 1 84631 177 2. The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553 with Related Texts on the Three Chapters Controversy. Translated with an introduction and notes by Richard Price. Translated Texts for istorians 51. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2009. xiv + 717 pp. GBP120. ISBN 978 1 84631 178 9. The welcome debt historians owe to Richard Price and his collaborators continues to grow. The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (2006), which he prepared with Michael Gaddis, disappeared quickly from conference book displays and was reissued again in paperback. Its three volumes include, not only a clear and reliable translation of the acts with commentary, but an excellent introduction, supporting documents, and useful maps, glossary, and indices. Now scholars may add a complete translation of The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553 to their personal libraries. Once again Prices extra labour in supplying detailed indices and an up-to-date bibliography makes this volume a valuable aid to research as well as an accessible introduction to the doctrinal and political issues surrounding the Fifth Ecumenical Council. Roughly a third of its contents consists of translations of important documents that helped to set the stage for the council, including letters from western clergy in reaction to Justinians 544/5 edict against the so-called Three Chapters and the emperors own follow-up edict On the Orthodox Faith from 551, and the two Constituta issued by the unfortunate Pope Vigilius, the first rejecting and the second accepting the emperors position. The lengthy introduction situates the acts in their historical context on the road from Chalcedon. Here Price also probes deeply into the politics constraining the bishops deliberations and especially into the evolution of Justinians strategy across the 540s and 550s: from first attempting to win over the eastern opponents to Chalcedon, the emperor shifted to muscling through a consensus among all its supporters in the east and west. Ironically, it would be the losers, those who refused to join the consensus, whose pejorative narrative would dominate the legacy of Constantinople. Price encourages historians to return to the documents themselves, which preserve voices on both sides of the contest. Doing so requires sensitivity to both their historical context and their literary character. The acts, in particular, remain a credible record of a council whose proceedings, choreographed in advance, were more akin to liturgy than to a modern parliamentary debate. Scholars and students could not have a better entry into those proceedings than this volume. Yet Price offers more. Many of the literary and textual issues he raises in the translations of Chalcedon and Constantinople are explored at length by the essays collected in Chalcedon in Context, which Price edited together with Mary Whitby. It is the first volume in a new companion series to Translated Texts for Historians, called Contexts. The purpose of the new series is to situate translation volumes in the framework of the latest scholarly debate with edited papers by leading researchers who have met to discuss problems and prospects. The essays indeed provide an informative context that also serves as an introduction to key issues for the historical interpretation of church councils and their records. Several authors are drawing on their own previously published or forthcoming work, including a translation of the Lateran Council of 649 by Price and Catherine Cubitt. Most focus to varying degrees on ancient editorial practices, the importance of translation, and the influence of both ecclesiastical and secular politics on council proceedings. Together they give a good sense of the dynamic state of the field and point to numerous areas of ongoing investigation. The first essay is by David Gwynn on the definition of Christian tradition between the Council of Nicaea (325) and the issue of the Henotikon (482). No one before 451 seems to have known of any Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed as such but that did not stop the bishops at Chalcedon from taking it up as an authoritative complement to the Nicene Creed. Along with approving some of Cyril of Alexandrias writings and Leo the Greats Tome, they expanded Christian authoritative tradition to include more than Scripture alone. Focusing on the Council of Ephesus (431), Thomas Graumann addresses two related challenges that other essays also will tackle. First, it is often important but difficult to tell when texts were read aloud in the council and to what effect; the most consequential instance of this is Cyrils third letter to Nestorius. Second, editors made interventions in the record, not only for the sake of concision and clarity, but to shape the appearance of the proceedings, with the emperor not least envisioned among their audience. Fergus Millar picks up on the problem of editorial activity and even more on issues of language and translation in his detailed study of a Syriac translation of the acts of the second Council at Ephesus (449) from a manuscript dated to 535. With the aid of chronological tables of texts and events, he demonstrates how this translation fits into a moment of imperial goodwill toward non-Chalcedonian theology and into the early rise of a Christian Syriac literary culture. Andrew Louth returns to the Syrian perspective when he asks why, if Chalcedon was the culmination of conflict between Alexandrian and Antiochene schools of doctrine, did Syrian bishops come to reject Chalcedon along with the Egyptians? Louth argues that Cyril represented not an Alexandrian school but the broad consensus, which he went outside of his philosophical comfort zone to defend against Nestorius in the Twelve Chapters. One effect was to rouse the anger of Syrian bishops, who themselves had never constituted a school and whom the Henotikon later helped push to decisive renunciation by affirming the Twelve Chapters but not Chalcedon. Chalcedon is centre stage in two essays by Price. The first is a narrative that highlights, among other things, the presiding role of the imperial representative who, it is clear, thoroughly enjoyed his work, and how dynamics changed over successive sessions. In what might be read as a variation of Gwynns argument, he characterizes the reception of Chalcedons acts as a new conciliar fundamentalism, whereby the honest disclosure of tensions and agreements became fodder for future disagreements. In the next chapter, Price goes on to test the honesty of those acts under three rubrics: truth, omission and fiction. Variations between the two extant versions of the acts, as well as close attention to subscription lists, are shown to reveal some cases of omission or fiction. Although unanimity was required of verdicts, the record of some disagreement might have been intended to validate the proceedings to non-participants or future generations (Graumann made a similar point in his essay). Three essays focus on later councils and their relationship to the 451 council. Chalcedons authoritative status was made certain only in Justinians reign, when first the emperor and then the second Council of Constantinople rewrote history with a will, trying to dispel ambiguity and resolve contradiction. According to Price, this reshaping of the historical record was more the fruit of wishful thinking than deceit. Catherine Cubitts essay on the Lateran Council of 649 addresses key themes in this volume, especially the contest between imperial and Episcopal authority, the use of acts from earlier councils as proof texts, and the importance of language - the Lateran acts were issued in both Latin and Greek. If there is a big jump from Chalcedon to Constantinople to Rome, Judith Herrin demonstrates the immediacy of issues raised at Chalcedon for bishops assembled during 692 in what was called the Council in Trullo as well as the Quinisext Council. Herrin first traces the legacy of Chalcedons canon 28, on the ecclesiastical status of Constantinople, in the context of canon lists and other collections circulating in the Greek east and Latin west. She then looks more closely at the form and function of such lists as the background to comparing the canons of Chalcedon and the Quinisext Council. The final two essays by Charlotte Roueche and Price return to scrutinizing the acts of Chalcedon in order to address two important subjects: the role as well as the recording of acclamations during council proceedings; and the degree to which those proceedings allowed room for bishops behaving badly. Naturally, there is much overlap between these essays. The editors might have imposed more consistency and provided a fuller introduction or conclusion, one which highlights the common themes running through the volume. The maps and glossaries found in Prices translation volumes are missed and some considerable knowledge on the part of readers is occasionally taken for granted. Those who forget their Three Chapters may have trouble figuring out why Ibas of Edessa and Theodore of Mopsuestia are mentioned so often. Some may wonder why one contributor denounces the term miaphysite as a barbarity, when all other contributors prefer it to monophysite. In summary, more volumes in the Contexts series are most welcome. But they would be more broadly useful and long-lasting if they enjoyed the same editorial care that goes into the Translated Texts. For now, Price and his colleagues have supplied a wealth of ideas and resources for investigating the history of church councils. Price and his colleagues have supplied a wealth of ideas and resources for investigating the history of church councils. Review Text Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700. Edited by Richard Price and Mary Whitby. Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts 1. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2009. vii + 205 pp. Review Quote What a pleasure to take up this wonderful three volume edition of the Acts of the Council. There is much more of interest in these volumes and they will be useful sources for reflecting on our own Oriental Orthodox response to Chalcedon. A new paperback edition has now been produced by the Liverpool University Press and this will make this valuable resource even more affordable. Peter Theodore Farrington, The Glastonbury Review , Issue No. 115 Details ISBN1846311004 Publisher Liverpool University Press Edition Description Revised Language English Translator Richard Price ISBN-10 1846311004 ISBN-13 9781846311000 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 262.514 Year 2007 Imprint Liverpool University Press Place of Publication Liverpool Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Latin Illustrations maps Author Richard Price Birth 1970 Short Title ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF CHALCED Series Number 45 DOI 10.1604/9781846311000 AU Release Date 2007-05-01 NZ Release Date 2007-05-01 UK Release Date 2007-05-01 Pages 1024 Series Translated Texts for Historians Publication Date 2007-05-01 Alternative 9780853230397 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:162553042;

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