Orthodoxia ai scris:
"Since the Nicene Council, we have done nothing but rewrite creeds. While we fight about words, inquire about novelties, take advantage of ambiguities, criticize authors, fight on party questions, have difficulties in agreeing, and prepare to anathematize each other, there is scarce a man who belongs to Christ. Take, for instance, last year’s creed, what alteration is there not in it already? First, we have a creed which bids us not to use the Nicene “consubstantial”; then comes another, which decrees and preaches it; next, the third excuses the word “substance,” as adopted by the Fathers in their simplicity; lastly, the fourth, which instead of excusing, condemns. We determine creeds by the year or by the month, we change our own determinations, we prohibit our changes, we anathematize our prohibitions. Thus, we either condemn others in our own persons, or ourselves in the instance of others, while we bite and devour one another, and are like to be
consumed one of another."
Mai ai astfel de materiale?
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