The canons, creeds, definitions, letters and acts of the seven ecumenical councils, from Nicaea in 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, with the canons of the local synods and the apostolic and patristic canons the councils received. The editors' commentary is left out; the councils speak for themselves. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1900), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Apostolic and Patristic Canons Approved at Trullo
1The Canons of the Holy Apostles2The Letter of Dionysius of Alexandria to Basilides3The Canons of Peter of Alexandria4The Canonical Letter of Gregory the Wonderworker5The Letter of Athanasius to the Monk Amun6From the Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter of Athanasius7The Letter of Athanasius to Rufinianus8The First Canonical Letter of Basil to Amphilochius9The Second Canonical Letter of Basil to Amphilochius10The Third Canonical Letter of Basil to Amphilochius, with a Note on Foods11Basil to Diodorus on Marrying Two Sisters12Basil to Gregory, a Priest Living with a Woman13Basil to the Country Bishops on Ordinations14Basil to His Bishops: No Ordaining for Money15Basil on the Unwritten Traditions16Basil to the People of Nicopolis17Gregory of Nyssa’s Canonical Letter to Letoius18Gregory the Theologian on the Books of Scripture19Amphilochius on the Books of Scripture20Timothy of Alexandria’s Canonical Answers21Theophilus on Epiphany Falling on a Sunday22Theophilus’s Instructions to Ammon23Theophilus of Alexandria: Three Rulings24Cyril of Alexandria to Domnus25Cyril to the Bishops of Libya and Pentapolis26The Circular Letter of Gennadius