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St. Cyprian of Carthage and the College of Bishops

by Benjamin Safranski

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Fortress Academic
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For theologians and church leaders interested in history

Clarifies complex relationships among bishops and authority

You will gain insights into church governance and unity

This book explores St. Cyprian's vision of episcopal cooperation in the early Church.

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This book assesses episcopal cooperation as envisioned by the third-century bishop Cyprian of Carthage. It outlines and assesses the interactions between local bishops, provincial groups of bishops, and the worldwide college. Assessing these interactions sheds light on the relationship between Cyprian's strong sense of local autonomy and the reality that each bishop was responsible to the world-wide college. Episcopal consensus was the sine qua non, for Cyprian, for a major issue of faith or practice to become one that defined membership in the college and, ultimately, the Church. The book brings this assessment into a modern scholarly debate by concluding with an evaluation of the ecclesiology of the Orthodox scholar Nicolas Afanasiev and his critiques of Cyprian. Afanasiev lamented Cyprian as the father of universal ecclesiology and claimed that Cyprian's college wielded authority above that of the local bishop. This book argues that Afanasiev fundamentally misconstrued Cyprian's understanding of collegiality. It is shown that, for Cyprian, collegiality was the framework for the common ministry of the bishops and did not infringe on the sovereignty of the local bishop. Rather, it was the college's collective duty to define the boundaries of acceptable Christian belief and practice.
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  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Academic

  • Published

    August 2018

  • Weight

    541g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781978700789

  • ISBN-10

    1978700784

  • Eden Code

    4707792

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