A noble task
Subtitle: entry into the clergy in the first five centuries
By: Lewis J. Patsavos; translated by Norman Russell ; foreword by Kallistos Ware.
Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brookline, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Clergy -- Appointment, call, and election -- History; Clergy -- Office -- History; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Work titles: Hē eisodos eis ton klēron kata tous pente prōtous aiōnas.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The forming of criteria; title: For entry into the clergy; title: According to the testimony of the sources; title: The early sources; title: The New Testament; title: The Apostolic Fathers; title: Other sources; title: Anonymous canonical works; title: Works dependent on the Didache; title: Works dependent on the Apostolic tradition of Hippolytus; title: Authors of the fourth and fifth centuries; title: Ephraim the Syrian; title: Athanasius the Great; title: Basil the Great; title: Gregory of Nazianzus; title: John Chrysostom; title: Ambrose of Milan; title: Other patristic testimonies; title: The canonical formulation of criteria for entry into the clergy drawn up by the councils; title: The councils of the fourth and fifth centuries; title: The Council of Ancyra; title: The Council of Neocaesarea; title: The first ecumenical Council (Nicaea); title: The Council of Sardica; title: The Council of Laodicea; title: The Council of Carthage.