Primacy in the Church from Vatican I to Vatican II

Primacy in the Church from Vatican I to Vatican II PDF

Author: Maximos Vgenopoulos

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 150175128X

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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.

Papal Primacy

Papal Primacy PDF

Author: Klaus Schatz

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780814655221

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Papal primacy has grown with the Church, and it remains a reality embedded in the Church as a living community begins to change.

The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated

The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated PDF

Author: Francis Kenrick

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781483925127

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THIS work first appeared in the year 1887, in the form of letters to the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, John Henry Hopkins, in reply to a work on the Church of Rome, addressed by him to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. In 1845 it was enlarged, and took the form of a general treatise on the Primacy; and in 1848 it was republished, with an improved arrangement of the matters which it embraced. In 1858 a German translation, made by Rev. Nicholas Steinbacher, S. J., was issued, with some alterations made by me in the last edition. The present edition contains some further corrections, although of little importance. The submission of Mr. Thomas Allies to the authority of the Holy See, of which he has become an able defender, rendered it proper to retrench many observations made in refutation of his positions as an apologist of the Church of England. Mr. Manning (later Henry Edward Cardinal Manning) also, now recognising the centre of unity, no longer deserves the reproach of inconsistency. The many striking avowals made by Dr. J. W. Nevin, late President of Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, are freely quoted in support of the authority of the Catholic Church and of· the Holy See, although it may perplex the reader to understand how he should still remain out of our communion. The other alterations to this edition are chiefly verbal. The work now goes before the publio in a permanent form, being stereotyped, with the hope that it may serve to dispel those prejudices which withhold 80 many from union with the See of Peter, of which Augustin has well said that God has established the doctrine of truth in the chair of unity.Archbishop Kenrick begins: "To first question which presents itself to the mind in reference to the important subject of the Church, is, whether Christ our Lord formed the multitude of His followers into a society, and appointed officers to govern them. There are many at the present day, who confidently answer in the negative, contending that He left it entirely optional with believe in His doctrine, to associate under whatever form they pleased for the furtherance of the great objects of His divine mission."

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