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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451 (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role
that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in
the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the
conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle
convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic
driving-and unsettling-the conciliar activity of these decades.
Mark S. Smith identifies a set of inherited assumptions concerning
the role that Nicaea was expected to play in orthodox
discourse-namely, that it possessed unique authority as a conciliar
event, and sole sufficiency as a credal statement. The fundamental
dilemma was thus how such shibboleths could be persuasively
reaffirmed in the context of a dispute over Christological doctrine
that the resources of the Nicene Creed were inadequate to address,
and how the convening of new oecumenical councils could avoid
fatally undermining Nicaea's special status. Smith examines the
articulation of these contested ideas of 'Nicaea' at the councils
of Ephesus I (431), Constantinople (448), Ephesus II (449), and
Chalcedon (451). Particular attention is paid to the role of
conciliar acta in providing carefully-shaped written contexts
within which the Nicene Creed could be read and interpreted. This
study proposes that the capacity of the idea of 'Nicaea' for
flexible re-expression was a source of opportunity as well as a
cause of strife, allowing continuity with the past to be asserted
precisely through adaptation and modification, and opening up
significant new paths for the articulation of credal and conciliar
authority. The work thus combines a detailed historical analysis of
the reception of Nicaea in the proceedings of the fifth-century
councils, with an examination of the complex delineation of
theological 'orthodoxy' in this period. It also reflects more
widely on questions of doctrinal development and ecclesial
reception in the early church.
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