Canon Law and Episcopal Authority
The Canons of Antioch and Serdica
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 May 2015
- ISBN 9780198732228
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 241x162x24 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book begins with a close study of the canons of Antioch and proposes a new chronology for their composition. It then works from that conclusion to demonstrate the significance of canon law as a resource for understanding the early Church. Finally, it explores the nature and status of canon law in its early developmental period.
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Christopher Stephens focuses on canon law as the starting point for a new interpretation of divisions between East and West in the Church after the death of Constantine the Great. He challenges the common assumption that bishops split between 'Nicenes' and 'non-Nicenes', 'Arians' or 'Eusebians'. Instead, he argues that questions of doctrine took second place to disputes about the status of individual bishops and broader issues of the role of ecclesiastical councils, the nature of episcopal authority, and in particular the supremacy of the bishop of Rome.
Canon law allows the author to offer a fresh understanding of the purposes of councils in the East after 337 particularly the famed Dedication Council of 341 and the western meeting of the council of Serdica and the canon law written there, which elevated the bishop of Rome to an authority above all other bishops. Investigating the laws they wrote, the author describes the power struggles taking place in the years following 337 as bishops sought to elevate their status and grasp the opportunity for the absolute form of leadership Constantine had embodied.
Combining a close study of the laws and events of this period with broader reflections on the nature of power and authority in the Church and the increasingly important role of canon law, the book offers a fresh narrative of one of the most significant periods in the development of the Church as an institution and of the bishop as a leader.
Stephens' important book begins and ends with the sobering reminder that the bishops assembled at these councils were more concerned with asserting their own power than with theological issues. More than merely a re-visiting of the Nicene controversy that dominated much of the 4th century, it should be of interest to anyone studying the history of the episcopate, the history of church councils and the history of Late Antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: The Canons of Antioch
The Canons of Antioch and the Dedication Council
The Canons of Antioch in Context
Part Two: Antioch and Serdica
The Dedication Council
Serdica, Rome, and the Response to Antioch
Part Three: Canon Law and Episcopal Authority
Law, Authority, and Power
Constantine, Control and Canon Law
Barry Bingham: A Man of His Word
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