The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 / translated with notes by Richard Price ; with contributions by Phil Booth and Catherine Cubitt.
KBR232 .L38 2014
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Meeting Name
Lateran Council (649)
Title
The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 / translated with notes by Richard Price ; with contributions by Phil Booth and Catherine Cubitt.
Added Author
Price, Richard, 1947 December 10- translator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Booth, Phil, 1981- translator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Booth, Phil, 1981- translator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Description
xiv, 462 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Series
Translated texts for historians ; v. 61.
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: The Chalcedonian Inheritance
Events before the Synod
Understanding the Crisis. The Constantinopolitan Perspective
The Palestinian Perspective
The Roman Perspective
The Acts, their Character and Purpose
The Lateran Synod. The Course of the Synod
The Aftermath
The Theological Issues
The Reception of the Synod
The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649. The First Session, 5 October
The Second Session, 8 October
The Third Session, 17 October
The Fourth Session, 19 October
The Fifth Session, 31 October
Letters of Pope Martin
Appendix: The attendance and subscription lists.
Events before the Synod
Understanding the Crisis. The Constantinopolitan Perspective
The Palestinian Perspective
The Roman Perspective
The Acts, their Character and Purpose
The Lateran Synod. The Course of the Synod
The Aftermath
The Theological Issues
The Reception of the Synod
The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649. The First Session, 5 October
The Second Session, 8 October
The Third Session, 17 October
The Fourth Session, 19 October
The Fifth Session, 31 October
Letters of Pope Martin
Appendix: The attendance and subscription lists.
Summary
"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."-- Back cover.
Note
"The translation follows the Greek version of the Acts edited by Riedinger and published in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum."--Page ix.
Translated from the Greek.
Translated from the Greek.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and indexes.
Location
RBSTA
Call Number
KBR232 .L38 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781781380390
1781380392
1781380392
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