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Article: Voting about God in Early Church Councils.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- September 1, 2008
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doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001182
Voting about God in Early Church Councils. By Ramsay MacMullen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 175 pp. $30 cloth.
What happened in early church councils? From the second century into the sixth century and beyond, Christian leaders met in such assemblies throughout the Roman Empire, although the preponderance were held in the East. Some were local or regional events; others transcended geographical boundaries and were assemblies convoked by emperors and presided over by their agents. Councils also were multifaceted in purpose, simultaneously legislative bodies and theological colloquies that were ...