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On the Church (2-volume Set) (Popular Patristics)

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On the Church (2-volume Set) (Popular Patristics)

St Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the Body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops in the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind of issue would it be right to break off communion? Additionally, could self-authenticating ministries, like those of martyrs and confessors who had suffered for the faith, supersede this order? Finally, did the Church need, and in what form, a universal bishop who could guarantee the integrity of the network of bishops?

St Cyprian wrestled with these questions in his letters and treatises, selected and translated in these companion volumes. Each volume contains an introduction to the two principal controversies that spurred St Cyprian to write his defense on church unity: first, the readmission to the Eucharist of those Christians who had lapsed or fallen in the persecution under Emperor Decius; and second, the sacramental validity of baptism in heretical and schismatic communities.

They are questions that continue to arise in various forms in the contemporary Church, and thus, these companion volumes are of ultimate value to the state of current Christendom.

Country	USA
Author	St Cyprian of Carthage
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780881413168
ISBN	088141316X
Label	St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
Manufacturer	St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
NumberOfItems	2
NumberOfPages	438
PublicationDate	2006-12-01
Publisher	St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
Studio	St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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