Preface

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JAN 4 1954
PETER SPEAKS
The Council of Chalcedon A. De4ok:
by
FRANCIS Mery: C.SS.R.
Maximam sane gestorum Chalcedonensium partem pro solido firmoque fundamento historiae habendam esse . apud omnes prudentes peritosque constat constabitque
(E. Schwartz, ACO II, III, praef. 3).
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS WASHINGTON 17, D. C.
Imprimi potest: John Sephton, C.SS.R.
Nihil obstat: Alfred C. Rush, C.SS.R. Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: KM Patrick A. O’Boyle Archbishop of Washington
May 23, 1952
CopyriGHT, 1952 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PREsS, INC.
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SOTO TED Wale dia’.
“Nobody will ever write a history of Europe that will make any sort of sense, until he does justice to the Councils of the Church, those vast and yet subtle collaborations for thrashing out a thousand thoughts to find the true thought of the Church. The great religious Councils of the Church are far more practical and important than the great interna- tional treaties which are generally made the pivotal dates of history .... For in almost every case the international peace was founded on a compromise; the religious peace was founded on a distinction—the enunciation of a principle which has affected, and still does affect, the general state of mind of thousands of Europeans from admirals to apple- women.” —G. K. Chesterton.
Table of Contents
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Reta ee de ee Wc reedolae Bee oe SF ea PeL ee ont, BON ak Pen ve a Shas 1X Chapter PART I
SEMEL DODANE Oe Nr Uah 2 ead TEA UNP yuk Ce ASM hoeie lik nie ia aN, BS Pades i ated
POTARVAUES GDET SON AE NW kat waa EE eh ed EM eet A De,
COVELL SOL LATEX ATIU TIA Che At ihen a Vl erat tos Oe ak done 5
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Marcia and: (Pulcieriay He iso a ae ee a ioe ae 8
ove sinnperial Gommissiqners iis iiss). ae yi eee oe 9
Dioscorus ot Alexandria 2200) oS, See eee ee 9
ihe Archimandrite: Batyches' \iliecais odie eee ook 10
mine Assembled Pathers’ ch 3 fee a ek ale ee 10
IJ. The Background: Ephesus to Chalcedon (A.D. 431-451).. 12