Council of Constantinople I on Authority of Scripture
Scripture with tradition and church teaching office
"The Faith of the Three Hundred and Eighteen Fathers assembled at Nice in Bithynia shall not be set aside."
THE POSITION
Canon 1 makes the Nicene faith itself a fixed and irreformable standard and anathematizes named heresies by conciliar act. The creed's own appeals to Scripture — "rose again according to the Scriptures," the Spirit "who spoke by the prophets" — sit inside a document whose binding force is conciliar.
8 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Completed the creed with a full article on the Holy Spirit as Lord and Giver of Life, proceeding from the Father. Condemned the Pneumatomachi and Apollinarians.
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"Council of Constantinople I on Authority of Scripture", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/constantinople-1/scripture-authority (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/constantinople-1/scripture-authority).