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Identify the first four ecumenical councils of the Church, outlining their main doctrinal and practical work and decisions. Assess their overall importance.
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Early Church History - Honours Identify the first four ecumenical councils of the Church, outlining their main doctrinal and practical work and decisions. Assess their overall importance. The first four ecumenical councils of the Church were held in Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451). They were ecumenical, for in theory the whole of the Church was represented, in practice, however, it was impractical to gather all the bishops together. Ecumenical, therefore, referred to the extent of their acceptance, in that: "If their conclusions were endorsed by the Church as a whole, then, and then only, were they reckoned as oecumenical."1 From the very beginning of Christianity as represented in Acts 15, it had been customary for Church leaders to gather together and attempt to resolve problems they had in common of both a practical and theological nature. The earliest recorded councils towards the end of the 2nd century were...
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