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> <mailto:49AD910F.8050802%40gmail.com>> L C writes:
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> >*nod* This is the impression I am taking away here. That's actually
> >MORE interesting in some ways. In a way, post God Learners, we have
> >a situation of serious disarray, with only very general trends keeping
> >things together. Given that there is as much a question of renouncing
> >the GL situation as there is just a fracturing of the empire, I suspect
> >there wasn't even broad agreement, or broad swaths that considered
> >themselves single churches. I know people have discussed Ecumenical
> >councils and such in the past, I'm not even sure who would be big enough
> >to sit on them.
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> According to the Conference Guide for the Seventh Ecclesiastical
> Council in 1625 it's an assortment of Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals
> Patriarchs and Prelates from across the west. There's even a holy
> monk. Seems to be mostly the Rokari and Hrestoli churches but it
> is supposed to be all major sects. Could include anyone you want
> because there's no definition of 'major sect' and the names and
> positions given aren't a full delegate list.
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> Bear in mind that the Sixth Council was in 1427 and decided little
> or nothing while the Fifth was in 821 in the God Learner Empire.
> They appear to be more of a committee attempting to reconcile
> doctrine than a governing body.
>
> --
> Donald Oddy
> http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/ <http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/>
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