The first seven ecumenical councils (325-787) : their history and theology
By the time the first ecumenical council opened at Nicaea in 325, Rome as a city had flourished for a thousand years, and as an Empire, regarded as eternal and universal, had dominated 50-60 million inhabitants of the Mediterranean littoral and western Europe for over three hundred. This book illustrates the contributions of these councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs
Print Book, English, ©1990
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn., ©1990