Talk:Ecumenical council

message: I propose that Ancient church councils (pre-ecumenical ) be merged into Ecumenical council. As described in Wikipedia:Merging#Reasons_for_merger, the two pages have significant overlap, the former "is very short and is unlikely to be expanded within a reasonable amount of time," and the later "requires the background material or context" in the former "in order for readers to understand it." Also, the two pages already contain a significant amount of duplicate information on ancient, pre-ecumenical Christian church councils. I welcome discussion on this proposal. Squideshi (talk) 00:24, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the above is true. But the present article would work well as a background section. It would provide the context for the full E councils. It would explain why as an illegal religion full E councils could not have been held up to Constantine. After that, the bluelinks take over. That's what they're there for. There's not enough here to justify an article and it impoverishes the main E article. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:49, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the article should be simply renamed / moved to Christian church councils and include information about both ecumenical and pre-ecumenical councils. There can be a section for each. As it stands it is really difficult to get a good picture of a complete listing of councils, ecumenical or not. Squideshi (talk) 20:16, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry, but if you want "a complete listing of councils", you need a list or a category (like, well, :Category:Christian church councils). An article with such a list will be far too large. --Martynas Patasius (talk) 20:56, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a bad idea, and I am not opposed to that. I am concerned, however, that it will not fully address the concern I have raised, because there are not currently seperate articles for each council, and there is no way to tag the missing articles with such a category; therefore, the list generated would be incomplete. I came to this topic hoping to read about Christian church councils, starting with the earliest and moving to the most recent. I now understand that that there is a distinction between pre-ecumenical (which may have been local, appear to be accepted by most Christians, and appear to also be called synods) and ecumenical (which may have had wider participation and were recognized by the Roman Empire) but I really don't care about the distinction between ecumenical and pre-ecumenical. Since both types appear to be accepted by a large number of Christians, I just want to read about them all, with perhaps a note telling me which ones are "ecumenical." As it stands, it has been very difficult for me to get a good understanding about this topic; and I feel that the current structure has failed me, because I am still not convinced that I fully understand all of the distinctions between ecumenical and pre-ecumenical Christian church counils, and synods. I think that a good structure should make it easy for someone to learn about these topics as a whole. I think, perhaps, the solution is just to create a new article--named Christian church councils that serves my purpose and leave the existing two articles for people who ONLY want to write / read about ecumenical or pre-ecumenical councils. Squideshi (talk) 20:19, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry, but have you actually looked at the category in question..? If you want an article describing a church council that is not necessarily an ecumenical council, then we have an article "Synod". If you really want an article that would list, let's say, Provincial Councils of Baltimore, Synod of Dort, Council of Bourges, Council of Jerusalem and the like (and add some explanation about each of them), then, well, your wish is unreasonable (and that's why I do not think that it is what you want). Such an article would be a complete mess. If you want a list instead, with links (blue and red), then, well, someone will have to write it. As usually, writing something like that yourself might be a good way to learn something about the subject. --Martynas Patasius (talk) 22:19, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I want an article that covers Christian church councils, regardless of ecumenical status. Such an article should give a brief description of each council, including information about ecumenical status, with a link to a more detailed individual article for each council about which someone is interested in writing an standalone article. I do not think this is unreasonable and I do not believe that such an article would be a complete mess, so we will have to agree to disagree about that. In any case, I had always planned to do the work myself; so it wasn't really a request for action on anyone else's part. I just thought it might be a good idea to post the proposal here first, in order to seek consensus, which is obviously not going to happen. For this reason, I am withdrawing the proposal and removing the merger tags from both pages. Squideshi (talk) 23:03, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  In such case, create a text file (or something like that) and make a list of all councils in that category (and subcategories). Count them (and remember - as you said yourself, many councils have no articles yet; furthermore, sometimes one article describes many councils). Multiply the count by the number of bytes in the average description you imagine (each name itself will take about 20 bytes, if not more). And read WP:SIZE. Then you will see why I think that your proposal is unreasonable. --Martynas Patasius (talk) 00:29, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

text:  That might have been true for the time when the merge was proposed (), but now () the article is much longer. As for "impoverishment", I guess that one can add a short "Background" section, but there is no need to call that a merger (and turn the other article to a redirect). After all, they discuss related but separate things. --Martynas Patasius (talk) 21:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to MP for pointing out that the goalposts have moved - a lot. I must object in strong terms to this egregious breech of wiki etiquette by Esoglou. It's a transparent attempt to bulk up a thin article by blantly cutting & pasting from all the bluelinks - especially after I had pointed out that they were present and perfectly adequate as they stood. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  So, you think that the text added by Esglou should not be in that article..? --Martynas Patasius (talk) 00:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I take the liberty of pointing out that there were no "blue links" to the information about the mid-2nd century councils concerning Montanism, which Hefele calls the first known church councils, nor to those on Quartodecimanism, which Hefele calls the second-earliest set of known church councils, nor to the information drawn from Hefele on participants, nor to the correction of the statement that (without distinction) the pre-ecumenical councils were held when Christianity was illegal, of the implied statement that after the Edict of Milan pre-ecumenical councils had civil status (not merely religious?), of the statement that ecumenical councils are seen as traditional (it was surely a novelty to hold a council of all the bishops of the Church without geographical distinction).  I thought that my additions would show up how baseless was the claim (which in spite of my pointing out its falsehood was insisted on here) of overlap between the topics of "ecumenical councils" (which began in 325 and, according to some views, have continued until at least the 20th century) and what are here quite awkwardly called "ancient church councils (pre-ecumenical)" (a more appropriate name would be "pre-Nicene church councils").  It should have been obvious that any overlap that exists is instead between "ecumenical councils" and "church councils in general", not limited to the pre-325 period when there were no ecumenical councils.  Since my work has been objected to and since, moreover, my aim has been achieved, I will add no more.  Esoglou (talk) 08:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: Greetings, Today I added Catholicism template which contains a link to Ecumenical Councils which is a pretty close match to this EC article. Even though each is a different topic, they are closely related. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 19:32, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: I am new(ish) to Wikipedia. I felt it would be better to receive guidance on editing the article here rather than go ahead and edit it. Your help is appreciated.
At the 2008 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), The Jerusalem Declaration was affirmed and states: "We uphold the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds as expressing the rule of faith of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church." The current wording of the article seems hesitant/uncertain about where the Anglican church stands. Here's the full Declaration from the GAFCON website:
https://www.gafcon.org/resources/the-jerusalem-declaration
Mary (talk) 19:17, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: The Council of Crete 2016, according to the sources provided in the article is considered the Eighth Ecumenical council. The majority of the Orthodox Patriarchates and autocephalous churches consider it the 8th ecumenical council and its results are binding.Pan-Orthodox Council goes ahead without Russians; decisions 'will be binding'
Thus, the Council of Crete should be more adequately referred as "recognized as the 8th council by the majority of the autocephalous churches" or the sources provided should be updated if it is not so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apavlides24 (talk • contribs) 19:26, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Council of Crete - Eight Ecumenical council