Episcopal elections 250-600 : hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity

Episcopal elections 250-600 : hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity / Peter Norton.

This book details a topic of great importance in early Church history and late antiquity. It challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and argues that this right remained in theory an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norton, Peter, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
30-600
Bishops > Appointment, call, and election > History.
Clergy > Appointment, call, and election > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Election law (Canon law)
RELIGION > Christian Church > Leadership.
RELIGION > Leadership.
Bishops > Appointment, call, and election
Church history > Primitive and early church
Clergy > Appointment, call, and election
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History
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Table of Contents:
  • Legislation and theory
  • The electorate : local communities and public disorder
  • Imperial intervention
  • Provinces and patriarchs : organizational structures
  • The metropolitan system in the West
  • The Eastern metropolitans
  • Corruption, constraint, and nepotism
  • Three disputed elections.

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