Title: Hippolytus and the Roman church in the third century
First published: 1995
Description: Allen Brent examines the significance of the Hippolytan events in the life of the Roman Church in the early third century. Developing the thesis of at least two authors in the Hippolytan corpus, he proposes a new, redactional explanation of the relation between these different authors and the theological and social tensions to which their work bears witness.

Brent reconstructs a picture of the community that contextualizes both the Hippolytan literature and in particular the Statue, for which he proposes a new interpretation as a community artefact though universally misjudged as a monument to an individual. Tertullian's relationship with Callistus is finally re-assessed. This work is thus an important contribution to new understandings of a period critical both for the development of Church Order and embryonic Trinitarian Orthodoxy.
Subjects: Christian literature, Early, Church history, Early Christian literature, Greek authors, History and criticism, Sources, Statues, Critique et interprétation, Kerkordes, Igreja (história), Filosofia patrística, Filosofia cristã, Primitive and early church, Vroege kerk, Littérature chrétienne primitive, Histoire, Histoire et critique, Église, Auteurs grecs, Christian literature, early, history and criticism, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Hippolytus, antipope, approximately 170-235 or 236, Ancient Church orders, Classical antiquities
People: Hippolytus Antipope (ca. 170-235 or 6), Pirro Ligorio (ca. 1510-1583)
Time periods: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
LC classification: BR1720.H8 B74 1995