"The Seven Ecumenical CouncilsOf The Undivided Church: Their Canons And Dogmatic DecreesTogether With The Canons Of All The Local synods Which Have Received Ecumenical Acceptance.Edited With Notes Gathered From The Writings Of The Greatest Scholars" is Volume XIV of the series "Nicene AndPost-Nicene FathersOfThe Christian Church"edited byPhilip Schaff and Henry Wace. This edition is complete and unabridged.
""The Seven Ecumenical Councils Of The Undivided Church: Their Canons And Dogmatic Decrees Together With The Canons Of All The Local synods Which Have Received Ecumenical Acceptance. Edited With Notes Gathered From The Writings Of The Greatest Scholars"" is Volume XIV of the series ""Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers Of The Christian Church"" edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. This edition is complete and unabridged.
The nature of Roman primacy and the extent of the teaching and jurisdictional authority of the pope have long been areas of misunderstanding and disagreement between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches of the East. Just as the Petrine office of the Roman pontiff admits of historical unfolding, so, too, do differing theological accounts of this office, and the period of the fourth-century Arian controversy marks a significant stage in the development of both. D. Vincent Twomey’s Apostolikos Thronos exposes two divergent Eastern accounts of Roman primacy in the writings of the rival fourth-century bishops Eusebius of Caesarea and Athanasius of Alexandria. In the first part, Twomey examines successive versions of Eusebius’ Church History, and he shows how Eusebius comes to replace his earlier apostolic ecclesiology with a novel imperial ecclesiology tied to Constantine’s embrace of Christianity, a shift that both reflects and contributes to a lasting change in the consciousness of the East toward the See of Rome. The second part explores the perspective on Roman primacy found in Athanasius’ historical and apologetic works, penned in response to his deposition from the See of Alexandria, which reveal how Athanasius preserves the traditional apostolic ecclesiology of the early Eusebius and also displays a deepening theological appreciation for the preeminence of the church and bishop of Rome, anticipating later articulations of the theology of the papacy.
