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by David Arias Introduction The purpose of the research on these pages is to locate, examine, and comment on some of the explicit and implicit Johannine themes in the first seven Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church, along with an eighth doctrinally important council:
All eight of these Councils are foundational for Catholic Dogmatic Theology insofar as they all define central doctrines on such matters as Trinitarian Theology, Christological Theology, Original Sin, Grace, Predestination, etc. Another commonality among these early Church Councils is that they all exhibit either explicit or implicit Johannine themes. In other words, some of the Councils’ documents evidence a clear and explicit reliance upon various teachings and themes present in the Fourth Gospel. Other documents evidence Johannine teachings and themes in a more implicit way, such that the Councils’ teachings logically imply (e.g., they presuppose) certain Johannine teachings and themes. My research locates these themes, examines them closely, and comments upon the various ways in which these Councils have appropriated the teachings of St. John’s Gospel. This website contains the following pages:
Conciliar Citations of St. John’s Gospel
JOHANNINE THEMES in the EARLY CHURCH COUNCILS
Johannine Influence on the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
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The Johannine Literature Web was created
and is maintained by Felix Just, S.J.
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