The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
Publisher: Liverpool University Press | ISBN: 0853230390 | edition 2006 | PDF | 989 pages | 4,48 mb
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…