The
Council of Frankfurt in
794-Asia:* Kyoto becomes the Japanese capital, ending the Nara period, and beginning the Heian period.-Europe:* Council of Frankfurt: oldest known mentioning of Frankfurt.* Vikings sack the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey....
was called by
CharlemagneCharlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe...
. This church council condemned the Adoptionist heresy and revoked decrees regarding the holy icons which were established in
787- Religion :* The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire....
at the
Second Council of NicaeaThe Second Council of Nicaea is believed to have been the Seventh Ecumenical Council by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups...
. The Council condemned both iconodulism (in favor of idols) and
iconoclasmIconoclasm, Greek for "image-breaking", is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. It is a frequent component of major domestic political or religious changes...
(against icons), "allowing that images could be useful educational devices, but denying that they were worthy of veneration." It condemned the teachings of Felix, Bishop of Urgel]] as being an [adoptionist]]
heresyHeresy is proposing some unorthodox change to an established system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established opinion of scholars of that belief such as canon. It is sometimes confused with apostasy which is disaffiliation from orthodoxy and blasphemy which is...
.
It also condemned the persecution of alleged witches and wizards, called the belief in witchcraft superstitious, and ordered the death penalty for those who presume to burn witches.
http://medspains.stanford.edu/demo/themes/adoptionism/frankfurt.html The council also regulated weights and measures, and offered directives on ecclesiastical discipline and lay religious observance.
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The
Council of Frankfurt in
794-Asia:* Kyoto becomes the Japanese capital, ending the Nara period, and beginning the Heian period.-Europe:* Council of Frankfurt: oldest known mentioning of Frankfurt.* Vikings sack the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey....
was called by
CharlemagneCharlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe...
. This church council condemned the Adoptionist heresy and revoked decrees regarding the holy icons which were established in
787- Religion :* The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire....
at the
Second Council of NicaeaThe Second Council of Nicaea is believed to have been the Seventh Ecumenical Council by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups...
. The Council condemned both iconodulism (in favor of idols) and
iconoclasmIconoclasm, Greek for "image-breaking", is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. It is a frequent component of major domestic political or religious changes...
(against icons), "allowing that images could be useful educational devices, but denying that they were worthy of veneration." It condemned the teachings of Felix, Bishop of Urgel]] as being an [adoptionist]]
heresyHeresy is proposing some unorthodox change to an established system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established opinion of scholars of that belief such as canon. It is sometimes confused with apostasy which is disaffiliation from orthodoxy and blasphemy which is...
.
It also condemned the persecution of alleged witches and wizards, called the belief in witchcraft superstitious, and ordered the death penalty for those who presume to burn witches.
http://medspains.stanford.edu/demo/themes/adoptionism/frankfurt.html The council also regulated weights and measures, and offered directives on ecclesiastical discipline and lay religious observance.