Author: Paul Misner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-03-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9004477144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Klaus Schatz
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780814655221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papal primacy has grown with the Church, and it remains a reality embedded in the Church as a living community begins to change.
Author: Maximos Vgenopoulos
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 150175128X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The primacy of the bishop of Rome, the pope, as it was finally shaped in the Middle Ages and later defined by Vatican I and II has been one of the thorniest issues in the history of the Western and Eastern Churches. This issue was a primary cause of the division between the two Churches and the events that followed the schism of 1054: the sack of Constantinople by the crusaders in 1204, the appointment by Pope Innocent III of a Latin patriarch of Constantinople, and the establishment of Uniatism as a method and model of union. Always a topic in ecumenical dialogue, the issue of primacy has appeared to be an insurmountable obstacle to the realization of full unity between Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Christianity. In this timely and comprehensive work, Maximos Vgenopoulos analyzes the response of major Orthodox thinkers to the Catholic understanding of the primary of the pope over the last two centuries, showing the strengths and weaknesses of these positions. Covering a broad range of primary and secondary sources and thinkers, Vgenopoulos approaches the issue of primacy with an open and ecumenical manner that looks forward to a way of resolving this most divisive issue between the two Churches. For the first time here the thought of Greek and Russian Orthodox theologians regarding primacy is brought together systematically and compared to demonstrate the emergence of a coherent view of primacy in accordance with the canonical principles of the Orthodox Church. In looking at crucial Greek-language sources Vgenopoulos makes a unique contribution by providing an account of the debate on primacy within the Greek Orthodox Church. Primacy in the Church from Vatican I to Vatican II is an invaluable resource on the official dialogue taking place between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church today. This important book will be of broad interest to historians, theologians, seminarians, and all those interested in Orthodox-Catholic relations.
Author: I. S. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-07-19
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780521264983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before the mid-eleventh century the pope was far from being the active leader of the Roman Catholic Church that he is today: he restricted himself to the local concerns of the diocese of Rome and was virtually ignored by the outside world. This book is a study of the transformation of the role of the pope in the twelfth century, from which he emerged as monarch of the universal Church, dedicated to reform and to making the Church independent of secular control. The most important role in the new model government was given to the cardinals, who hence forward were the principal advisers, agents and electors of the popes. These developments were accelerated by schism and political conflict: on three occasions the lawful pope was driven into exile by an antipope supported by a powerful secular ruler. Professor Robinson's text emphasizes the growing importance of the College of Cardinals and the practical aspects of papal government. It offers the most detailed analytical study yet available of this key period in the history of the western Church.
Author: Richard Wigginton Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 766
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1616431520
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