The Gothic church of Wulfila in light of the first and second canon at the Second Ecumenical council
Abstract
The purpose of the following article is to explore the application of the canons of the Second Ecumenical Council in regards to the barbarians and in particular th Goths, as well as to establish the consequences for their church organization. In 381 emperor Theodosius I summons in Constantinople a council with main subjects – solving the Arian dispute and clarifying the relationship between the different Christian communities. The Second canon of the Council gives the Christian communities outside the borders of the Roman empire (more precisely to the Christian Goths) the opportunity to keep their church organization and their relationship with the rest of the Church structure, according to their customs. The First canon, however, establishes the boundaries in regards to different heretic teachings such as “eunomians, anomies, arians or eudoxians, semi-arians or pneumato, savelians, markelians, photinians and apollinarians” and position them outside the church structure. The part of the Goths that are orthodoxal (Nicaeans) fall
under the scope of the Second Canon. The majority, however, profess Arianism and in turn, are not accepted as part of the Church. They built an independent church organization as part of the major Arianian community on the Balkans.
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