The General Councils: A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Cushing, Kathleen G | Copyright information

Bellitto, Christopher M. The General Councils: A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 156. $16.95 softcover.)

In this compact volume, Christopher Bellitto offers a concise overview of the twenty-one general councils from Nicaea in 325 to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's. Covering such a vast amount of time, as well as the transformation of a general council's role from chiefly defining articles of...

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