As Lewis Ayres shows in his book Nicaea and its Legacy, there were numerous points of disagreement and dissent. |
This pattern continued in the early ecumenical councils, especially Nicaea. |
The Nicaea ruling contains one other provision that is extremely important for the Orthodox churches. |
They chose for the meeting a part of the sea-shore, in the Malian gulf, near Nicaea. |
The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome. |
The congress dealt primarily with the pastoral problem that abandoning the Nicaea rule would lead to divisions. |