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The honor of my brothers : a short history of the relation between the Pope and the bishops / William Henn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henn, William.
- Series:
- Ut unum sint
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popes--Primacy--History.
- Popes.
- Bishops--History.
- Bishops.
- Catholic Church--Bishops--History.
- Catholic Church.
- History.
- Popes--Primacy.
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crossroad Pub., [2000]
- Summary:
- The richly detailed history of the papacy provides the necessary backdrop without which any doctrine of the primacy would lack roots in the real life of the Church. This sometimes-dramatic story offers solid material for rethinking the nature and exercise of papal primacy today.
- Contents:
- Church order before the "Council of the 318 Fathers"
- "Preeminent in charity" : primacy in the earliest centuries
- "Peter has spoken through Leo" : the era of the great ecumenical councils
- Gregory the Great looks north : entering the Middle Ages
- Libertas ecclesiae : the reform of Gregory VII
- A house divided : schism and conciliarism
- The struggle over authority : Trent to Vatican I
- Vatican II : communion, collegiality, and primacy.
- Notes:
- "A Herder and Herder book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824518039
- OCLC:
- 43370663
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