Ecumenical council

The Pushtoons’s antagonistic and aggressive nature makes them feared and hated by groups such as the Hazaras, Tajiks, and the Nuristanis. The Pushtoon government group is a combination of a royal hierarchy (determined by hereditary right) and a council of elders who can contribute to decision making. The non aggressive…

The church was in the center of people 's lives. The men and women listened to its teachings and everything they had to say. The church slowly became corrupt because the leaders were trying to maintain a prideful facade. Leaders of the church decided to excommunicate and even execute people who challenged the church 's teachings. Jan Huss was one of these men that did not accept the church 's teachings. He was a Czech priest that was highly influenced by John Wycliffe. He was burned in 1415…

he is a noble stature because he is in an important position in the church society and his “fall” affects to the people around him. The true evidence of Father Flynn having a noble stature is seen when he says “I think a message of the Second Ecumenical Council was that the church needs to take on a more familiar face. Reflect the local community. We should sing a song from the ratio now and then. Take the kids out for ice cream” (Shanley 1444). In his position as a priest he is trying to make a…

If we are not preaching Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father; our preaching is not Christian. Some churches and people for whatever reason attempt to eliminate Christ’s presence from their preaching. It is Christ who told us, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” Jesus is in time what God the Father is in eternity. Our preaching is not authentic when we don’t exalt and lift up the name of Jesus in our preaching. We have forgotten that Christ is the one who bleed and died for our…

divine nature began while Jesus walked the earth. The first Ecumenical council included Jesus in the trinity as the Son God. The other councils in many occasions came to be as part of numerous attempts to reconcile his divine nature with his human nature, and to combat against any who questioned His divinity. The councils also tried to explain whether having two natures meant he was two persons or had two wills. All in all, the councils united to seek understanding of what it meant for Jesus to…

The ecumenical enterprise enabled the National Council of Churches to flourish and exert some influence on government policy, for example on US policy on apartheid and on conscientious objectors, while in 1957 the Reformed and Congregational churches joined to form the United Church…

christens, it applied to ecclesial openness to other churches. The Ecclesial movement has been led by the World Council of Churches since 1948. This movement created full communion among the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church, United Church of Christ, and the Reformed Church in America. Even before Vatican II made ecumenism a pivotal theme Father Yves Congar highlighted the ecumenical issue that divided Christianity. In 1995 John Paul II reaffirmed the catholic commitment to…

The Second Vatican Council urged us to do precisely this in its 1964 degree Unitatis redintegratio, “On ecumenism.” There are areas where Catholic and Lutheran theology is not congruent. However, the Catholic Church and Lutherans have been working for many years on the important…

In 325 Constantine called the first ecumenical council, the council of Nicaea, and presided as judge on the issue of the trinity . On one side we had Arius, who argued Arianism, or that Jesus was subservient to God the father, having been allegedly been created by the father. On the other side, we had…

the losses that the religion had undergone during its time of oppression. With this new legal status, the religion was free to move about the entire Roman Empire without any real barriers. With more and more people converting arisen a need for a council and the Nicea and the Nicene Creed. Emperor Julian did try to bring about the return of paganism/Greco-Roman religion but his efforts fell upon deaf ears. The next emperor, Emperor Theodosius IX made Christianity the official religion of the…