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    INTRODUCTION. 1. Origin and Authority of Councils,2. Different Kinds of Synods, 3. By whom are Synods convoked, 4. Members of Councils,5. The Presidency of Councils,6. Confirmation of the Decrees of the Councils,7. Relation of the Pope to the Oecumenical Council 8. Infallibility of Oecumenical Councils,9. Appeal from the Pope to an Oecumenical Council,10. Number of the Oecumenical Councils,11. Customs observed in Oecumenical Councils with respect to Signatures, Precedence, Manner of Voting, etc 12. Histories of the Councils, BOOK 1.

    ANTE-NICENE COUNCILS.

    CHAPTER 1.

    COUNCILS OF THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES. 1. Synods relative to Montanism, 2. Synods concerning the Feast of Easter, 3. Doubtful Synods of the Second Century, CHAPTER 2.

    SYNODS OF THE THIRD CENTURY. 4. First Half of the Third Century, 5. First Synods at Carthage and Rome, on account of Novatianism and the Lapsi (251), 6. Synods relative to the Baptism of Heretics (255-256), 7. Synod of Narbonne (255-260), 8. Synods at Arsinoe and Rome (255-260) 9. Three Synods at Antioch on account of Paul of Samosata (264-269), CHAPTER 3.

    THE SYNODS OF THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY. 10. Pretended Synod of Sinuessa (303), 11. Synod of Cirta (305), 12. Synod of Alexandria (306), 13. Synod of Elvira (305 or 306) 14. Origin of the Schism of the Donatists, and the first Synods held on this account in 312 and 313, 15. Synod of Aries in Gaul (314), 16. Synod of Ancyra in 314, 17. Synod of Neocaesarea (314-325), BOOK THE FIRST OECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF NICAEA, A.D. 325.

    CHAPTER 1.

    PRELIMINARY. 18. Doctrine of the Logos prior to Arianism 19. Arius, 20. Synod of Alexandria in 320, and its Consequences, 21. Axius obliged to leave Alexandria. His Letters and his Thalia, 22. Synod in Bithynia. Intervention of the Emperor Constantine, CHAPTER - THE DISCUSSIONS AT NICAEA. 23. Synodal Acts, 24. The Convocation by the Emperor,25. Number of the Members of the Council,26. Date of the Synod, 27. The Disputations, 28. Arrival of the Emperor — Solemn Opening of the Council — Presidency, 29. Mutual Complaints of the Bishops,30. Manner of Deliberation, 31. Paphnutius and Spiridion, 32. Debates with the Eusebians — The oJmoou>siov , 33. Creed of Eusebius of Caesarca, 34. the Nicene Creed, 35. The Signatures, 36. Measures taken by the Emperor against the Arians, 37. Decision of the Easter Question,38. The later Quartodecimans, 39. the Audians 40. Decision on the subject of the Meletian Schism,41. Number of the Nicene Canons, 42. Contents of the Nicene Canons, 43. Paplnutius and the projected Law of Celibacy, 44. Conclusion — Unpublished Documents, APPENDIX.

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