On the church
Subtitle: select treatises
By: St. Cyprian of Carthage ; translation with introduction and commentary by Allen Brent.
Contributors: Brent, Allen.
Series: Popular patristics series -- no. 32; St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "popular patristics" series -- no. 32.
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Crestwood, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780881413120
Subjects: Cyprian, -- Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Church discipline -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.; Church -- Unity.
Work titles: Treatises.
Description: "St Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops of the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind of issue would it be right to break off communion? Additionally, could self-authenticating ministries, like those of martyrs and confessors who had suffered for the faith, supersede this order? Finally, did the Church need, and in what form, a universal bishop who could guarantee the integrity of the network of bishops?" "St Cyprian wrestled with these questions in his letters and treatises, translated in this volume and in its companion volume: On the Church: Select Letters. They are questions that continue to arise in various forms in the contemporary Church, and thus, these companion volumes are of ultimate value to the state of current Christendom."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186).