The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon ~ Box set

1026 Pages·2006·4.63 MB·English

by  Richard Price

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Volume 45
The Acts of the
Council of Chalcedon
Translated with introduction and notes by
RICHARD PRICE and MICHAEL GADDIS
Volume One
General Introduction
Documents before the Council
Session I
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE
Preface ix
Abbreviations xv
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
I. Church Councils and Church Government 2
II. The Christological Crisis: The Two Councils of Ephesu 17
III. The Council of Chalcedon 37
IV. Chalcedon’s Legacy 51
V. The Theology of Chalcedon 56
VI. Composition and Transmission of the Acts 75
DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE COUNCIL 86
SESSION I, 8 October 451 111
Debate over Ephesus II; Home Synod of 448
VOLUME TWO
Numbering of the Sessions vii
Abbreviations ix
SESSION II, 10 October 1
Debate over the faith
SESSION III, 13 October 29
Trial of Dioscorus
SESSION IV, 17 October 117
Tome of Leo, Egyptian Bishops and Constantinopolitan Monks
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vi CONTENTS
SESSION ON CAROSUS AND DOROTHEUS, 20 October 164
SESSION ON PHOTIUS AND EUSTATHIUS, 20 October 169
SESSION V, 22 October 183
The Definition of the Faith
SESSION VI, 25 October 206
Promulgation of the Definition
SESSION VII, 26 October 244
Patriarchate of Jerusalem
SESSION VIII, 26 October 250
Theodoret of Cyrrhus
SESSION IX, 26 October 258
Ibas of Edessa (1)
SESSION X, 27 October 265
Ibas of Edessa (2)
SESSION ON DOMNUS, 27 October 310
VOLUME THREE
Numbering of the Sessions vii
Abbreviations ix
SESSION XI, 29 October 1
Bassianus and Stephen of Ephesus (1)
SESSION XII, 30 October 18
Bassianus and Stephen of Ephesus (2)
SESSION XIII, 30 October 23
Nicomedia and Nicaea
SESSION XIV, 31 October 34
Athanasius and Sabinianus of Perrhe
SESSION XV, 31 October 62
Leo, Letter 93
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CONTENTS vii
SESSION XVI, 1 November 67
Canon 28
CANONS 1–27 92
DOCUMENTS AFTER THE COUNCIL 104
APPENDICES
1: The Documentary Collections 157
2: Attendance and Ecumenicity 193
GLOSSARY 204
BIBLIOGRAPHY 213
MAPS
1. Dioceses and Provinces 229
2. The Balkans 230
3. Western Asia Minor 231
4. Eastern Asia Minor 232
5. Syria, Palestine, Cyprus 233
6. Egypt 234
INDICES
(A) Personal names 235
(1) Bishop, Clerics and Monks 235
(2) Secular Dignitaries 287
(B) Sees by province 291
(C) Documents 306
(1) Conciliar Acts and Decrees 306
(2) Conciliar Canons 306
(3) Florilegia 307
(4) Documents from individuals 307
(D) Topics 310
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PREFACE
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) must be one of the longest
surviving texts from the ancient world, and they make the council itself
possibly the best-documented event in Roman, or early church, history.1
They are extremely revealing for the politics of the council, the role of the
emperor and his officials, the concerns and loyalties of the bishops, and a
host of matters relating to church affairs. They are not rich in theological
debate, but they remain the essential source for determining what the
bishops themselves intended when they approved the Definition of the Faith
and the other decrees. It is hoped that this, the first fully annotated edition
and the first complete translation into a modern western language, will
stimulate interest in this imposing and revealing document.
AUTHORSHIP AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The division of labour between the two authors was as follows. The trans-
lation is the work of Richard M. Price, on the basis of a first draft of the
greater part of the text by Michael Gaddis. The General Introduction is by
Gaddis, except for Section V, ‘The Theology of Chalcedon’, which is by Price.
The introductions, commentaries and footnotes to each section of text, the
glossary, and the indices are by Price. Of the two appendices, the first on
‘The Documentary Collections’ is by Gaddis, and the second on ‘Attend-
ance and Ecumenicity’ is by Price.
Acknowledgements are owed to our predecessors. The Greek version of
Sessions I to VI was fluently and accurately rendered into French by that
expert translator A.J. Festugière.2 Even more impressive is the pre-
revolutionary Russian version, which translates the whole text and indeed
1 As observed by Ste. Croix, ‘The Council of Chalcedon’.
2 Ephèse et Chalcédoine (Paris, 1982), and Actes du Concile de Chalcédoine: Sessions III–
VI (Geneva, 1983).
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