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The first four centuries
Ghikas, Emanuele
Cover/art: Kalostefanou, Ioanna
Editor: Ververelis, Evangelos - Vatsalia, Th.
Scientific editor: Ververelis, Theodoros M.
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ISBN: 978-960-7234-20-9
Irakleitos, Athens, 7/2024
1st ed || News Language: Greek, Ancient || Greek, New
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€ 24.00 (incl. VAT 6%)
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17 x 24 cm., 820 gr., 496 p.
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The primacy claimed by the Roman Church is the real, currently insurmountable obstacle to the reunification of the Churches of East and West.
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The primacy claimed by the Roman Church is one of the most contested issues and is considered today, after the lifting of the anathemas on both sides, the main obstacle to the reunification of the two great Churches of the East and the West. The work examines, in the light of the findings of the "criticism of the texts", all the Gospel passages invoked by the Church of Rome on behalf of the primacy of Peter, the leader of the Apostles, and in the same way, on behalf of itself and its superior, the bishop, the Pope, as he insisted is called They are then examined, placed in their historical context, the only one capable of determining their meaning and significance, the testimonies for and against the Roman primacy of the first four centuries, a period during which, along with the formation of other ecclesiastical institutions, were also developed the theoretical bases of the primary as well as the methods of its exercise. However, it is also the period during which his first doubts arose, which culminated in the Martian crisis. The work concludes with the extensions that took place over the next fifty years, up to the ecumenical council of Chalcedon and Pope Leo the Great, so the first phase of the development of the Roman primacy culminates, and at the same time the most intense manifestations of the tendency towards arbitrariness are noted , which characterizes, like every center of power, the Roman Church and its leader. This trend is also the real, currently insurmountable, obstacle to the reunification of the Churches of the East and the West, which today's conditions, however, make possible after some time.
ORIGINAL TITLE: Il primato romano alla luce dei dati storici: I primi quattro secoli
From Aracne Publications, Italy 2020
PROLOGUE
PART ONE: THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PRIMACY
CHAPTER ONE: THE PRIEST OF PETER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
1. The primacy of Peter in the Gospels
2. The primacy of Peter in the Acts of the Apostles
Exclusion A
3. The primacy of Peter in the letters of the Apostle Paul
4. Is Jacob the successor of Peter?
CHAPTER TWO: ROME SUCCESSOR OF JERUSALEM
CHAPTER THREE: THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF THE ROMAN PRIMACY
CHAPTER FOUR: EARLY CONTESTS OF THE ROMAN PRIMACY
CHAPTER FIVE: INTERNAL DISPUTES
CHAPTER SIX: FIRST INDICATIONS OF A CONCENTRATION PROCESS FOCUSING ON ROME
CHAPTER SEVEN: CHALLENGING IN THE WEST AND EAST THE DOCTRINE AUTHORITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ROMAN PRIMACY DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE THIRD CENTURY
PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL BEND ON CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
CHAPTER ONE: THE ECLIPSE OF THE ROMAN PRIMACY OF CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER TWO: THE MARSIAN CRISIS AND THE ROMAN CHURCH
CHAPTER THREE: THE RISE OF CAESAROPAPISM
CHAPTER FOUR: CONSTANTINE AND THE ROMAN PRIMACY
CHAPTER FIVE: THE ROMAN PRIMACY ON CONSTANTINE'S SUCCESSORS, RECOGNIZED AND DISPUTED
CHAPTER SIX: THE FALL OF LIBERIA
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE COUNCIL OF ARIMINUS AND THE PARTIAL RESTORATION OF LIBERIAN PRESTIGIOUSNESS
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ROMAN PRIMACY FROM THE AGE OF JULIAN TO VALENTUS
CHAPTER NINE: DAMASCUS AND THE ROMAN PRIMACY IN EAST AND WEST
CHAPTER TEN: PRESBYTERA AND NEW ROME ENCOUNTERS
1. Constantinople New Rome
2. The rise of Milan
3. Before the conflicts of New and Old Rome
CHAPTER ELEVEN: ALLEGED AND ACTUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DAMASUS TO THE PRIMACY OF ROME
CONCLUSIONS
HISTORICAL EXTENSIONS: FROM THE SYRIKIUS TO THE LION THE GREAT
1. Increasing personification of the primacy
2. The personification of the primordial and the East
3. Primary and increasing centralization
Exclusion B
4. Growing trend towards the arbitrariness of the bishops of Rome
Exclusion C
5. The centralized process centered on Rome and the East
6. Caesaropapism and primacy
7. New Rome, anti-jealous of the elder
SOME NAMED POPES OF THE FIRST CENTURIES HONORED AS SAINTS IN THE EAST ALSO
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