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Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils: Translation and Commentary covers the disciplinary decrees enacted by the Catholic Church in her general councils up to and exclusive of the Council of Trent. H. J. Schroeder provides the original texts, English translations and commentary on the historical background of the decrees. “For, after all, the full scope and import of a conciliar decision,...

History. The First Ecumenical Council of the Church was held in 325 in Nicaea (now Isnik), a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor. In the history of Christianity it was an event of paramount importance; not merely because it was a new expedient adopted to meet and decide ecclesiastical issues of an extraordinary nature, but because of its far-reaching and uncompromising decision in a matter that threatened the very existence of Christianity. The immediate
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