its subsequent reception by the Church. "Ecumenical " " as applied to a council means "lawfully called, truly representative, approved and received by the Church." A conciliar decree is only "endorsed through oecumenical acceptance." See, generally, Palmer, Treatise on the Church, pt. iv. chap. iii.; Bp. Forbes on Art. 21; Gore, R. C. Claims, chap. iii.; Moberly in Lux Mundi, ess. vi. NOTE C.-The Christian Fact as guarded by the Definitions of the Church The following passage from Mr. Balfour's Foundations of Belief is of great interest in this connection: "Whatever opinion the reader may entertain of the decisions at which the Church arrived on the doctrine of the Trinity, it is at least clear that they were not in the nature of explanations. They were, in fact, precisely the reverse. They were the negation of explanations. The various heresies which it combated were, broadly speaking, all endeavours to bring the mystery, so far as possible, into harmony with contemporary speculations, Gnostic, Neo-Platonic, or Rationalising; to relieve it from this or that difficulty; in short, to do something towards 'explaining' it. The Church held that all such explanations, or partial explanations, inflicted irremediable impoverishment on the idea of the Godhead which was essentially involved in the Christian revelation. They insisted on preserving that idea in all its inexplicable fulness; and so it has come about that while such simplifications as those of the Arians, for example, are so alien and impossible to modern modes of thought that, if they had been incorporated with Christianity, they must have destroyed it, the doctrine of Christ's Divinity still gives reality and life to the worship of millions of pious souls, who are wholly ignorant both of the controversy to which they owe its preservation, and of the technicalities which its discussion has involved" (p. 279). Anti-Trinitarians of Reformation Anthropomorphism in O.T., 42 f. its Christology, 132 f., 147. Council of (362), 340 f., 353 Apocalyptic literature, the, view of note, 381, 577. monophysitism at, 434. Allegorism, 190. Alogi, 227 note. Amalric of Bena, 490, 497. Ambrose, on the Incarnation, 385. Messiah, 59. Apollinaris, 372, 643. on the Incarnation, 375 f. 386 f. catholic resistance to, 378 f. idea of redemption, 198. Apostles, the, growth of their faith, | Athanasius, Logos-doctrine, 346 f. anti-Arian treatises, 344 f., 354 on redemption, 349, 505, 507, on Christ's human knowledge, general characteristics, 359 f. quoted, 6, 12, 33, 39, 41, 188, Athenagoras, 189. Atonement, Day of, 125, 644. demption. necessity, 630. 630. See Re- essence of the idea, 631. in relation to Christ's person, effects variously described, 636. on the "theophanies," 42. on the sinlessness of Christ, quoted, 21, 384, 585, 594, 595, BALFOUR, A. J., quoted, 27, 676. Barnabas, Epistle of, 15's. 596- Basilides, 250. on Christ's moral miracles, 33. life and works, 344 f. contra Gentes, 345 f. de Incarnatione, 188, 346 f. Basiliscus, 434. Basle, Council of, 500. Benson, R. M., quoted, 640. on the Incarnation, 4. on the death of Christ, 639. Boethius, 485. [Boethius], de persona et duabus Bonaventura, 498, 525 note. Bright, W., quoted, 634. Bruce, A. B., quoted, 29, 51, 58, Butler, Bishop, 17, 25. CABASILAS, Nicolas, 470. Cappadocian theologians, the, 361 f. its effects, 54. Carpocratians, the, 178. Celestine, Pope, 397. Celsus, 239. Cerinthus, 184, 171. Chalcedon, Council of, 418. Chaldæan period of Hebrew pro- "Chapters, the three," 487. effect of His personality, 66. titles in S. John's Gospel, 145. supernatural birth of, 613. 123. mediatorial work, 20 f. CHRIST, moral and mental develop- human knowledge, its limita- work in relation to His person, example, 627 f. His manhood impersonal, 590, His manhood a recipient of permanence of manhood in, His humanity to be adored, His dual will, 450 f., 465 f. Christianity, a fact, 3. the perfect moral law, 89. of the Acts, 84 f. of S. Peter, 91 f. of Epistle to Hebrews, 121 f. of Apostolic Fathers, 157. 31. in S. Paul's Epistles, 110 f. Clement of Rome [second epistle], | Creation, S. John's doctrine of, 5. Sirmian (second, "the blas- Sirmian (third, "the dated on Christ's human knowledge, monophysite element in, 408. Cyril of Jerusalem, 332, 334, 335, DALE, R. W., quoted, 35, 67, 617. Ariminum and Seleucia (359), Daniel, Book of, 58 f., 72. Antioch (363), 342. 329, 334, 339. Basle (1431), 500. Chalcedon (451), 418 f. Tours (1163), 521. Covenant, the new, in prophecy, 57. in Epistle to Hebrews, 126 f. David, promise to, 50. a type of Christ, 50. Didache, the, 88, 149, 155. 306. "Dionysius the Areopagite," 450, Docetism, Tertullian on, 265. Dominican order, the, 498. Dorner, quoted, 97, 172, 179, 262, |