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The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (Hardcover)
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The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (Hardcover)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 61
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The Lateran Synod of 649 was a major event in the 'monothelete'
controversy of the seventh century over 'wills' and 'operations' in
Christ. It represented a determined attempt by the papacy to
frustrate and reverse the ecclesiastical policy of the emperor and
patriarch at Constantinople. It represented the boldest challenge
to imperial authority by churchmen that late antiquity had seen.
The theology adopted by the synod and its expression in a series of
speeches was the work of a team of Greek monks under the leadership
of St Maximus the Confessor. This translation will add to the still
limited body of material available in English for the study of a
writer who is widely held to have been the greatest of all
Byzantine theologians. The Acts of the synod have been a major
puzzle ever since their editor, Rudolf Riedinger, demonstrated that
the Greek version, not the Latin, is the original, even though the
council must have conducted its business in Latin. This edition
offers a new explanation of this anomaly, which restores
authenticity to the synodal sessions, without denying that the
Acts, as published, were not a straight factual record but
propaganda intended to convince the Roman world of the orthodoxy
and authority of the papacy.
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