Council of Hieria

(noun)

The first church council concerned with religious imagery. On behalf of the church, the council endorsed an iconoclast position and declared image worship to be blasphemy.

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Examples of Council of Hieria in the following topics:

  • Iconoclasm in Byzantium

    • The role of women and monks in supporting the veneration of images has also been asserted.
    • The use of images of the holy increased in Orthodox worship, and these images increasingly came to be regarded as points of access to the divine.
    • In 754 CE Constantine summoned the first ecumenical council concerned with religious imagery, the Council of Hieria, which 340 bishops attended.
    • On behalf of the church, the council endorsed an iconoclast position and declared image worship to be blasphemy.
    • After Leo IV too died, Irene called another ecumenical council, the Second Council of Nicaea, in 787 CE that reversed the decrees of the previous iconoclast council and restored image worship, marking the end of the First Iconoclasm restored image worship.

  • Civilizing the City

    • Progressivism led to a shift in city governance from a mayor and an ineffective council to a stronger council or commission structure.
    • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager or the commission system.
    • Under the council-manager system, the council would pass laws while the manager would ensure their execution.
    • Under the commission system, the executive would be composed of people who each controlled one area of government.
    • The result was the rapid growth of the educated middle class, who typically were the grass roots supporters of progressive measures.

  • The Rise of the Assemblies

    • Each colony had a system of governance including a governor, a council of officials appointed by the governor, and an elected assembly.
    • The Governor's Council or the Governor's Court were the senior advisors to the governor.
    • The colonial governor appointed council members who served as the government in the case of an absentee governorship.
    • Council members were ex-officio members who served by virtue of holding another public office.
    • For example, the head of the militia, the chief justice, and the king's attorney were also council members.

  • Defending the Nation

    • The Security Council is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States .
    • Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies.
    • Council also has counterparts in the national security councils of many other nations.
    • The National Security Council is chaired by the President.
    • Identify the main function of the United States National Security Council

  • The Western Schism

    • Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418).
    • The suggestion to have a church council resolve the schism was first made in 1378, but was not initially adopted because canon law required that a pope call a council.
    • A church council was held at Pisa in 1409 under the auspices of the cardinals to try solving the dispute.
    • At the fifteenth session, on June 5, 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous.
    • Habemus Papam (the announcement of a new pope) at the Council of Constance, 1415.

  • Personal Experiences of Individuals With Degrees in Sociology

    • Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, works for the NGO American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE): http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb08/fn6.html

  • Progressive Government: City and State

    • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager, or the commission system.
    • Under the council-manager system, the council would pass laws, while the manager would ensure their execution.
    • Under the commission system, the executive would be composed of people who each controlled one area of government.
    • Referendum was the process of allowing voters to pass judgment on proposed legislation, such as on the issuance of bonds to raise capital for public improvements.
    • Assess the impact of progressive reform at the city and state levels

  • The European Central Bank

    • The Governing Council decides and formulates monetary policy for the European Central Bank and is similar to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
    • The council is composed of the Executive Board and 17 Governors.
    • The European Council consists of heads of state of the EU member countries.
    • President of the Executive Council also becomes the president of the Governing Council.
    • Country's central banks remain independent of the EU, and the top official of a central bank in the Eurozone is a governor and a member of the Governing Council.

  • Structure of the Directory

    • The Constitution of 1795 created the Directory with a bicameral legislature consisting of the Council of Five Hundred (lower house) and the Council of Ancients (upper house).
    • Besides functioning as legislative bodies, the Council of Five Hundred proposed the list, out of which the Council of Ancients chose five Directors, who jointly held executive power.
    • The members of the upper house, the Council of Ancients, were chosen by lot from among all of the deputies.
    • On October 31, 1795, the members of the Council of Five Hundred submitted a list of candidates to the Council of Ancients, which chose the first Directory.
    • General Augereau's soldiers arrested Pichegru, Barthélemy, and the leading royalist deputies of the Councils.

  • The First Consul

    • The plan was, first, to persuade the Directors to resign, then, second, to get the Council of Ancients and the Council of Five Hundred (the upper and lower houses of the legislature) to appoint a pliant commission that would draw up a new constitution to the plotters' specifications.
    • On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was at hand in Paris and induced them to depart for the safety in the suburbs while Napoleon was charged with the safety of the two Councils and given command of all available local troops.
    • By the following day, the deputies of the Councils realized that they were facing an attempted coup rather than being protected from a Jacobin rebellion.
    • With the Council routed, the plotters convened two commissions, each consisting of 25 deputies from the two Councils.
    • The legislature known as Corps législatif also partly replaced the Council of Five Hundred under the new constitution, but its role consisted solely of voting on laws deliberated before the Tribunat.