A third notion was set forth in other writings of St. Augustine and Luther, in the decrees of the second Council of Orange (529), and in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The quietly mounting pressure against paganism in the 4th century culminated in the decrees of Emperor Theodosius I (reigned 379 395), who made Catholic Christianity the official religion of the empire and who closed many pagan temples.
In great measure this doctrine is identical with that confessed by orthodox Christians of every label and consists of the Bible, the dogmatic heritage of the ancient church as laid down in the historic creeds and in the decrees of the ecumenical councils, and the theological work of the great doctors of the faith in the East and West.
A subsequent letter of Boniface's to Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, provided a good deal of information about Frankish synods, especially one held in 747, the decrees of which Boniface included in the letter.
He was often consulted on theological questions by the Eastern bishops and participated in formulating the decrees of the Council of Ephesus (431) against the Nestorian heresy (an emphasis on the independence of the divine and human natures of Christ).
During his reign, the Inquisition was successful in eliminating Protestantism in Italy, and the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545 63) were put into effect.
Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt, in the Decree of Canopus (237 bc), introduced an extra day every four years to the basic 365-day calendar (this practice also having been introduced in the Seleucid calendar adopted in 312 bc).
The influential liturgical movement in the 20th century led to the revision of the liturgy of Holy Week under Pius XII in 1955 and culminated in the decree of the Second Vatican Council (1963) that allowed the introduction of the vernacular in the variable parts of the liturgy and ordered a complete revision of the missal to be carried out by a postconciliar commission.
In the decree of 1795, the term gramme thus replaced gravet, and kilogramme replaced grave.
In the Decree of Kangxi, he stated, Chinese converts were also involved in the controversy through letters of protest, books, pamphlets, etc.
After all, the collection of gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, were only accepted as canonical at the Synod of Rome in 382 A.D. in the Decree of Damasus, issued, coincidentally enough, by Pope St. Damasus I. Scripture, as accepted by modern Christians, is nothing but an arbitrary collection of four gospels codified by the Christians in power in the 4th century.
