Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... hold the first seven general councils, and are designated as Melchites, or the orthodox Greek Oriental Church. The jurisdiction of their patriarchs extends throughout Russia, the Greek Islands, and the Districts of Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem and Grand Cairo. The following account of their doctrines, is extracted from " Smith's History of the Greek Church. 1680:" "They retain exactly the Catholic doctrine concerning the most holy and undivided Trinity, and the incarnation of the Eternal Son of God according to the Constantinopolitan or Nicene creed, which they only retain in their liturgies and catechisms, probably preferring this fuller exposition to the Apostles' creed, which will account for their omission of it. They are wholly strangers to that of St. Athanasius. They condemn the madness and impiety of Arius, Nestorius and Paulus Samosatenus and the other heresiarchs. Upon the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit they differ from the Latin and reformed churches. With respect to the former, they object with a great deal of bitterness, that the bishops of the Roman Church have not dealt honestly in this matter, for that without consulting them, and without regard to the canon of the council of Ephesus, which forbad such additions under the penalty of an anathema, they have inserted the words "filioque" into the creed of Constantinople. For the proof and justification of this charge, they appeal to the writings of the ancient fathers, to acts of councils, to Ecclesiastical history, to the faith of the best and most authentic manuscript copies, nay, to Rome itself, where that creed was engraven on two silver tables, hung up in St. Peter's church, by command of Pope Leo III. where this addition is wanting. This was warmly disputed by the Greeks i...
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