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of common prayer and the ordering of bishops priests and deacons i ab do so affirm and accordingly declare my belief in the faith which is revealed in the holy scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds and to which the historic formularies of the church of england bear witness and in public prayer and administration of the sacraments i will use only the forms of service which are authorized or allowed by canon 71 the 1559 act of supremacy made a distinction between the decisions of the first four ecumenical councils which were to be used as sufficient proof that something was heresy as opposed to those of later councils which could only be used to that purpose if the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the canonical scriptures 72 as such the anglican tradition accepts the first four ecumenical councils though they considered subordinate to scripture 73 while the councils are part of the historic formularies of anglican tradition 74 it is difficult to locate an explicit reference in anglicanism to the unconditional acceptance of all seven ecumenical councils there is little evidence of dogmatic or canonical acceptance beyond the statements of individual anglican theologians and bishops anglican cleric of anglo catholic churchmanship bishop chandler holder jones ssc explains we indeed and absolutely believe all seven councils are truly ecumenical and catholic on the basis of the received tradition of the ancient undivided church of east and west the anglican formularies address only particular critical theological and disciplinary concerns of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and that certainly by design behind them however stands the universal authority of the holy and apostolic tradition which did not have to be rehashed or redebated by anglican catholics 75 he quotes william tighe associate professor of history at muhlenberg college in allentown pennsylvania another member of the anglo catholic wing of anglicanism despite the fact that advocates of all sides to the 16th century religious conflict catholic lutheran and reformed alike were given to claiming that their particular doctrinal stances and in some cases distinctive practices were in accord with those of the early church fathers or at least with those of high standing such as st augustine none but anglicanism were willing to require or even permit their confessional stances to be judged by or subordinated to a hypothetical patristic consensus of the first four or five centuries of christianity but anglicanism most certainly did and does so to this day 75 methodist churches edit methodist theologian charles w brockwell jr wrote that the first four ecumenical councils produced and clarified the niceno constantinopolitan symbol nicene creed the most important document in christian history after the bible itself 76 the manual of the church of the nazarene part of the wesleyan holiness movement within methodism states our denomination receives the creeds of the first five christian centuries as expressions of its own faith including the christological doctrines formulated during the first four ecumenical councils 77 other protestant denominations edit some including some fundamentalist christians condemn the ecumenical councils for other reasons independency or congregationalist polity among protestants may involve the rejection of any governmental structure or binding authority above local congregations conformity to the decisions of these councils is therefore considered purely voluntary and the councils are to be considered binding only insofar as those doctrines are derived from the scriptures many of these churches reject the idea that anyone other than the authors of scripture can directly lead other christians by original divine authority after the new testament they assert the doors of revelation were closed and councils can only give advice or guidance but have no authority they consider new doctrines not derived from the sealed canon of scripture to be both impossible and unnecessary whether proposed by church councils or by more recent prophets catholic and orthodox objections to this position point to the fact that the canon of scripture itself was fixed by these councils they conclude that this would lead to a logical inconsistency of a non authoritative body fixing a supposedly authoritative source citation needed nontrinitarian groups edit ecumenical councils are not recognised by nontrinitarian churches such as the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and other denominations within the latter day saint movement christadelphians jehovah s witnesses church of god seventh day their descendants and unitarians they view the ecumenical councils as misguided human attempts to establish doctrine and as attempts to define dogmas by debate rather than by revelation citation needed see also edit buddhist councils references edit council christianity encyclopedia britannica archived from the original on 20 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