The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649
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The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649
（Translated texts for historians, v. 61）
Liverpool University Press, 2016
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"The translation follows the Greek version of the Acts edited by Riedinger and published in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum"--P. ix
Bibliography: p. [433]-451
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Lateran Synod of 649 was a major event in the 'monothelete' controversy of the seventh century over 'wills' and 'operations' in Christ. It represented a determined attempt by the papacy to frustrate and reverse the ecclesiastical policy of the emperor and patriarch at Constantinople. It represented the boldest challenge to imperial authority by churchmen that late antiquity had seen. The theology adopted by the synod and its expression in a series of speeches was the work of a team of Greek monks under the leadership of St Maximus the Confessor. This translation will add to the still limited body of material available in English for the study of a writer who is widely held to have been the greatest of all Byzantine theologians. The Acts of the synod have been a major puzzle ever since their editor, Rudolf Riedinger, demonstrated that the Greek version, not the Latin, is the original, even though the council must have conducted its business in Latin. This edition offers a new explanation of this anomaly, which restores authenticity to the synodal sessions, without denying that the Acts, as published, were not a straight factual record but propaganda intended to convince the Roman world of the orthodoxy and authority of the papacy.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Chalcedonian Inheritance
General Introduction
I. Events before the Synod
II. Understanding the Crisis
1. The Constantinopolitan Perspective
2. The Palestinian Perspective
3. The Roman Perspective
III. The Acts, their Character and Purpose
IV. The Lateran Synod
1. The Course of the Synod
2. The Aftermath
V. The Theological Issues]
VI. The Reception of the Synod
The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649
Session I, 5 October
Session II, 8 October
Session III, 17 October
Session IV, 19 October
Session V, 31 October
Letters of Pope Martin
Appendix: The attendance and subscription lists
Maps
Glossary
Bibliography
1. Primary Sources
2. Secondary Literature
Indices
1. Documents and Citations
2. Persons
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