#12324 How Did the Church Councils Get Their Names, Purgatory, and More - William Albrecht
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore “How did the Church councils get their names?” along with a variety of other intriguing topics, including recommendations for studying Early Church Fathers and the concept of monophysitism. We also delve into whether Purgatory was discussed in the Early Church and the criteria used by the Council of Rome to determine the Canon.
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Questions Covered:
- 00:55 – How did the Church councils get their names?
- 06:02 – If I only had one Early Church Father to study what would be your recommendation and why?
- 10:50 – What in the world is monophysitism?
- 29:16 – Was Purgatory mentioned in the Early church or discussed at council?
- 34:02 – What criteria did the Council of Rome use to determine the Canon?
- 48:04 – Is there a similarity and difference the Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox councils?
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| 0:55.0 | We're talking about the first 500 years of Christianity and how it's shaped and formed it to eventually become what it is today. |
| 1:02.0 | So I got a question for you, William. |
| 1:05.4 | Obviously, we're talking the councils. |
| 1:08.0 | Where in the world do the councils get their names? |
| 1:12.6 | Where do they get to? Oh, yeah, great yeah great great question i'm glad you asked that so they would get their their names |
| 1:16.6 | from the locations where they were had at so unfortunately many of these today don't exist |
| 1:23.3 | anymore and many of these today many of these locations are unfortunately places were um |
| 1:29.3 | that are heavily Muslim dominated now but yeah they would get their names from the places that |
| 1:34.8 | they were taken at okay cool so I assume the first and second Vatican Council were held at |
| 1:41.2 | the Vatican that's's correct. Yes. |
| 1:47.8 | People may be wondering, let me, let me lay it out for people. |
| 1:49.6 | People are probably thinking, oh, I agree. |
| 1:53.7 | William, okay, we'll give me another example of another council. |
| 2:00.0 | Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and that is now known as modern day Turkey. |
| 2:02.2 | Oh, it's in modern day Turkey now. So, yeah, these places were in locations. |
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