Sources of authority
Subtitle: The early church
By: edited by Tamara Grdzelidze
Contributors: Grdzelidze, Tamara, editor; World Council of Churches. Commission on Faith and Order
Series: Faith and order paper -- no. 217; Faith and order paper -- no. 217.
Publisher: World Council of Churches Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9782825416020
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Christianity; Congresses; Authority; Church
Other titles: Early church
Notes: Proceedings from the consultation, The Teachers and Witnesses of the Early Church: A Common Source of Authority, Variously Received?, held 1-6 September 2008, at Westminster College, Cambridge, U.K. and sponsored by the Faith and Order Commission.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Susan Durber; title: Editor's introduction  -- Tamara Grdzelidze; title: Report from the Consultation --; title: "Search the scriptures for they speak of me": reading scripture with the early Fathers  -- John Behr; title: A response to John Behr  -- Margaret Barker; title: A response to John Behr  -- Christopher A. Hall; title: The teachers and witness of the early church in the Roman Catholic Church today  -- Michel Van Parys; title: A response to Michel Van Parys  -- Catherine E. Clifford; title: A response to Michel Van Parys  -- Emmanuel Anya Anyambod; title: Where does patristic authority fit in the Orthodox conception of church order?  -- John A. McGuckin; title: A response to John A. McGuckin  -- Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi; title: A response to John A. McGuckin  -- Pablo R. Andiñach; title: Tradition and traditions in the Oriental Orthodox churches ; title: Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim --; title: A response to Yohanna Ibrahim Gregorios  -- Anne-Louise Eriksson; title: A response to Yohanna Ibrahim Gregorios  -- Anoushavan Tanielian; title: "Ancient authors," "ancient Fathers": the place of the patristic theologians in the Anglican tradition  -- John St-Helier Gibaut; title: A response to John St-Helier Gibaut  -- Natasha Klukach; title: A response to John St-Helier Gibaut  -- Antoine Arjakovsky; title: Christian tradition and traditions in Wesleyan and Methodist perspectives  -- Ted A. Campbell; title: A response to Ted A. Campbell  -- Janet Scott; title: A response to Ted A. Campbell -- Shenouda Maher Ishak.