Ecumenical Councils of the IV and V centuries

Alexey Petrovich Lebedev is an outstanding Russian historian of the Church, the author of labor mainly on the history of the Byzantine Church, a well-deserved professor of the Imperial Moscow Great Academy and Professor of Moscow University. His name for the first time became widely known after the publication of the Ecumenical Cathedrals of the IV and V BB. " This book brought A. P. Lebedev not only the degree of Dr. Theology, but also put on a par with the church outstanding Russian historians, left a deep mark in Russian church-historical science.
A study of the four first universal cathedrals is written by a fascinating and affordable language, with the introduction of the newest scientific literature, with extensive theological and cultural and historical excursions in the essence of Christological disputes, with an unshakable faith in the truth of the enthusiastic Orthodoxy. The book in no way has lost its relevance and scientific benefits for the modern reader.
Compared to the first edition of 2004, significant editorial and bibliographic corrections were made.
For all interested history of the ancient church