Diversity in Unity: Approaches to Church Order in Rome and in Byzantium
Clarence Gallagher
This evening I propose to offer you some of the results my research for a book have recently completed. examined work canonists, in Eastern and Western parts Christian community. explained what they did indicated contribution made development canon law first millennium Christianity. The deals primarily with Rome Constantinople, though there is an excursus into Methodius Slavs Churches Syria Persia. What binds chapters together, makes them more than collection disparate essays, parallel discussion three issues. These are: constitution governance Church (monarchical, patriarchal/imperial, synodal), discipline clergy (married or celibate) question re-marriage church after divorce
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