ISBN10: 1593331940, ISBN13: 9781593331948, [publisher: Gorgias Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
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Gorgias Press 2005 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Gorgias Dissertations, 3.

Gorgias Press 2005 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Gorgias Dissertations, 3.

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ISBN10: 1593331940, ISBN13: 9781593331948, [publisher: Gorgias Press LLC] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The five appearances of bishop lists in the early church mark the principal points at which apostolic succession of bishops emerged and developed into a crucial and well defined doctrine. Walter Bauer long ago termed these lists, legitimately if not charitably, ôliterary propaganda.ö This study delves into the political struggles surrounding the lists and the doctrine they served to define.The ancient Mediterranean world established legitimacy of authority in social institutions, whether Roman, Greek, Jewish, or Christian, by citing successions of leaders. In early catholic churches, apostolic succession was the linchpin in the three ôpillarsö of tradition, succession, and canon. It guaranteed the first and assured interpretation of the third.A social history approach reveals political intrigue at every point of the development of the doctrine of apostolic succession. In crises of the first century, the New Testament recorded (monepiscopal ) bishops and succession, and Ignatius and 1 Clement make monepiscopacy and apostolic succession explicit. In the second and third centuries, writers employed episcopal successions in reaction to subsequent struggles with heresy and schism. By the fourth century, Eusebius employed succession lists for apologetic and edification.Ecclesiastical politics in each case reflects the ...
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