reference to eleven edicts published as a result of the fifthecclesiastical council held in Constantinople in 680. This council grew out of a controversy over several articles written at that time which the council condemned as heretical. Origen (ca. 185 - 253), a father of the Eastern Church and one of the greatest impulses to the development of theology, was excommunicated from the church by this council. The key principle that was fought was Origen's belief and support of the pre-existence of the human soul and a succession of lives. —SHSBC Binder 33 Approved Glossary