On the Church - Select Treatises by St. Cyprian of Carthage 2 volume set or buy individually - Theological Studies - Book

Author: St. Cyprian of Carthage Translator: Allen Brent Size: 5x7.10 Pages: 186  Paperback Popular Patristics Series Volume 32 Volume I of a 2-volume Set St Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the Body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops in the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind of issue would it be right to break off communion? Additionally, could self-authenticating ministries, like those of martyrs and confessors who had suffered for the faith, supersede this order? Finally, did the Church need, and in what form, a universal bishop who could guarantee the integrity of the network of bishops? St Cyprian wrestled with these questions in his letters and treatises, selected and translated in these companion volumes. Ea