Diversity in Unity: Approaches to Church Order in Rome and in Byzantium-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Diversity in Unity: Approaches to Church Order in Rome and in Byzantium

Published:2002-01 Issue:30 Volume:6 Page:208-238
ISSN:0956-618X
Container-title:Ecclesiastical Law Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Author:

Gallagher Clarence

Abstract

This evening I propose to offer you some of the results of my research for a book I have recently completed. I examined the work of canonists, in the Eastern and Western parts of the Christian community. I explained what they did and indicated the contribution they made to the development of canon law in the first millennium of Christianity. The book deals primarily with Rome and Constantinople, though there is an excursus into Methodius and the Slavs and into the Churches in Syria and Persia. What binds the chapters together, and makes them more than a collection of disparate essays, is the parallel discussion of three issues. These are: the constitution and governance of the Church (monarchical, patriarchal/imperial, synodal), the discipline of the clergy (married or celibate) and the question of re-marriage in church after divorce

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Law,Religious studies

Reference195 articles.

1. Decretal letter Cum in unum, in Patrologia Latina, vol 13. 1160a–1161a, quoted by Cochini C. , op. cit., p 11.

2. Clerical Continence in the Fourth Century: Three Papal Decretals

3. The bishops who took part were almost all from eastern dioceses. Rome did not send a delegation but there were some western bishops present.

4. It is the earliest decretal we have and it is modelled directly on imperial rescripts which provided rulings that were meant to establish legal precedents.

5. ‘It has seemed good absolutely to forbid the bishops, the priests, and the deacons, i.e. all the clerics in the service of the ministry, to have [sexual] relations with their wives and procreate children; should anyone do so, let him be excluded from the honor of the clergy’: see, Cochini C. . The Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy, p 159.