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Cyprian and the Bishops of Rome: Questions of Papal Primacy in the Early Church

Cyprian and the Bishops of Rome: Questions of Papal Primacy in the Early Church

Dunn, Geoffrey D.

Paperback

Series: Early Christian Studies, Book 11

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0975213857
ISBN13: 9780975213858
Publisher: Sydney College of Divinity
Published: Dec 20 2018
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

During the ten years that Cyprian was bishop of Carthage (A.D. 249-258) there were five bishops of Rome (Fabian, Cornelius, Lucius I, Stephen I and Sixtus II). Cyprian's literary output deals with some of the most challenging issues faced by pre-Nicene Christianity: the Decian persecution and the problem of lapsed Christians, and the subsequent so-called rebaptism controversy. This book investigates the history of Cyprian's interactions with, and attitudes towards, each of those Roman bishops. Many previous attempts at explaining Cyprian's point of view with regard to the role and position of the church of Rome have concentrated on Cyprian's use of terms like cathedra Petri, primatus, and ecclesia principalis in De unitate. This book argues that Cyprian's understanding of these terms and of papal primacy in general is best determined from the wider context of his actual interactions with the bishops of Rome, as illustrated in his letters.

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