The Medieval Church · 787
The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea
The Second Council of Nicaea
What it is
The full record behind the Definition: bishops who had signed at Hieria being examined and received back, patristic testimonies read aloud one by one, and the iconoclast florilegium taken apart citation by citation, several proving to be forged or truncated.
Why it lasted
The earliest surviving example of a council doing textual criticism in session, checking its opponents' quotations against the manuscripts in the room. Its methods matter as much as its verdict.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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