Download e-book for kindle: The Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity by Geoffrey D. Dunn

By Geoffrey D. Dunn

At numerous instances over the last millennium bishops of Rome have claimed a common primacy of jurisdiction over all Christians and a superiority over civil authority. Reactions to those claims have formed the trendy international profoundly. Did the Roman bishop make such claims within the millennium ahead of that? The essays during this quantity from overseas specialists within the box learn the bishop of Rome in overdue antiquity from the time of Constantine first and foremost of the fourth century to the demise of Gregory the good first and foremost of the 7th. those have been very important sessions as Christianity underwent huge, immense transformation in a time of switch. The essays pay attention to how the holders of the workplace perceived and exercised their episcopal duties and prerogatives in the urban or on the subject of either civic management and different church buildings in different parts, relatively as published during the surviving correspondence. With numerous of the individuals analyzing an identical facts from diversified views, this quantity canvasses a variety of critiques in regards to the nature of papal strength on the earth of past due antiquity.

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