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Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is a work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. It covers the hierarchies within the church system and reflects on the liturgical rites of the Byzantine church.
Author : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
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Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is a work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. It covers the hierarchies within the church system and reflects on the liturgical rites of the Byzantine church.
Author : Daniel J. Nodes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004257896
The commentary of John Colet (1467-1519) on Dionysius the Areopagite’s Ecclesiastical Hierarchy adapts a work widely neglected by medieval theologians to the early sixteenth century. Dionysius’s “apostolic” model allowed Colet to set ecclesiastical corruption against the ideas for re-forming the mind as well as the church. The commentary reveals Colet’s fascination with the Kabbalah and re-emergent Galenism, but it subordinates all to harmonizing Dionysius and his supposed teacher, Paul. This first new edition in almost 150 years and first edition of the complete manuscript is edited critically, translated expertly, and provided with an apparatus that advances historical, theological, and rhetorical contexts. It resituates study of Colet by identifying a coherent center for his theology and agenda for reform in Tudor England.
Author : Pseudo-Dionysius (the Areopagite.)
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Alexandrian school
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Author : Pseudo-Dionysius (the Areopagite.)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Pseudo-Dionysius (the Areopagite.)
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Church polity
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Author : George Barrell CHEEVER
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Church and state
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Author : Ashley M. Purpura
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0823278387
In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: “Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of organizing the church, and what are the theological justifications for its persistence?” These questions are especially significant for historically and contemporarily understanding how Orthodox Christians negotiate their spiritual ideals with the challenges of their social and ecclesiastical realities. To critically address these questions, this book offers four case studies of historically disparate Byzantine theologians from the sixth to the fourteenth-centuries—Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Niketas Stethatos, and Nicholas Cabasilas—who significantly reflect on the relationship between spiritual authority, power, and hierarchy in theoretical, liturgical, and practical contexts. Although Dionysius the Areopagite has been the subject of much scholarly interest in recent years, the applied theological legacy of his development of “hierarchy” in the Christian East has not before been explored. Relying on a common Dionysian heritage, these Byzantine authors are brought into a common dialogue to reveal a tradition of constructing authentic ecclesiastical hierarchy as foremost that which communicates divinity.
Author : Ernest P. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199924627
The French Religious Protectorate was an institutionalized and enduring policy of the French government, based on a claim by the French state to be guardian of all Catholics in China. The expansive nature of the Protectorate's claim across nationalities elicited opposition from official and ordinary Chinese, other foreign countries, and even the pope. Yet French authorities believed their Protectorate was essential to their political prominence in the country. This book examines the dynamics of the French policy, the supporting role played in it by ecclesiastical authority, and its function in embittering Sino-foreign relations. In the 1910s, the dissidence of some missionaries and Chinese Catholics introduced turmoil inside the church itself. The rebels viewed the link between French power and the foreign-run church as prejudicial to the evangelistic project. The issue came into the open in 1916, when French authorities seized territory in the city of Tianjin on the grounds of protecting Catholics. In response, many Catholics joined in a campaign of patriotic protest, which became linked to a movement to end the subordination of the Chinese Catholic clergy to foreign missionaries and to appoint Chinese bishops. With new leadership in the Vatican sympathetic to reforms, serious steps were taken from the late 1910s to establish a Chinese-led church, but foreign bishops, their missionary societies, and the French government fought back. During the 1930s, the effort to create an indigenous church stalled. It was less than halfway to realization when the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949. Ecclesiastical Colony reveals the powerful personalities, major debates, and complex series of events behind the turmoil that characterized the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experience of the Catholic church in China.
Author : FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD
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Page : 952 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : John J. MACELHINEY
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Church
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