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The Struggle for Apostolic Authority: The Easter Controversy in the Late Second Century

Religions
The Easter controversy of the late second century unveiled a profound theological and cultural debate within early Christianity. Originating from differing practices regarding the calculation of Easter dates, the dispute pitted the churches of Asia Minor
Shushun Gao
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Leadership succession patterns in the apostolic church as a template for critique of contemporary charismatic leadership succession patterns

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The pattern of leadership succession observed globally in most contemporary Pentecostal movements and churches can be characterised as dynastic succession. Yet historic modern Pentecostalism (in the Azusa tradition) prided itself on being biblical.
Cephas Tushima
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Apostolicity as Divine Attribute in Trinitarian Relationship: the origin and nature of apostolicity and how it is demonstrated [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
This paper responds to the question what is the origin and nature of apostolicity and how it is demonstrated? The investigation examines the meaning of apostolicity found in the New Testament, its significant transition through the post-apostolic period,
Dr Erwin Samuel Henderson
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La tradition ecclésiastique gallicane à l’épreuve de la Révolution

Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2023
Deeply marked by the heritage of Bossuet and Fleury, Gallican Catholicism developed under the Ancien Régime a conception of Tradition strongly imbued with primitivism which was based both on the conservation of the practices of Antiquity and on the ...
François Hou
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Idea of apostolic succession in the epistle of St. Firmilian of Caesarea to St. Cyprian of Carthage [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2019
This article analyses St. Firmilian’s of Caesarea doctrine of apostolic succession, formulated in his letter to Cyprian of Carthage (256). This text was written in connection with the disagreements as to the necessity for the baptism of heretics who ...
Georgy Zakharov
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Covid, crown and crosier: A lockdown reflection on monarchy and episcopacy

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This study was conducted during 111 days of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown and reviewed current media articles that revealed government bodies and institutions have come to view people not as priceless treasures, but in terms of the money ...
Walter B. Firth
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“The Pillar and Ground of Truth”: Irenaeus’ Use of Ecclesiology Against the Heresies

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023
This paper seeks to evaluate the ecclesiology of St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, particularly as it relates to his defense of orthodoxy against false teaching in his five-volume work, Against Heresies.
Chang Geoffrey
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Patterning Constitutional Conflicts in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
This paper set out to analyse the patterning of conflict in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) with the introduction of the Constitution; which has been described as an unfair proposition, given that conflict is inevitable in a postmodern society ...
Gift Masengwe, Bekithemba Dube
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The Luthetan traditionalism and high Church [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2012
At the present day decline in theology regarded as «book learning» lies behind crisis of confessional identity. Family and ethnic traditions, aesthetic preferences and other factors determine one’s membership of a confessional fellowship. As a result, a
Aleksandr Michaylovich Prilutskiy
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Primacy in the Ancient Church (from the 2nd to the mid-5th century): a study in typology [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2021
The question of the realisation of primacy in the ancient Church has been mainly studied from the point of view of the ecclesiological and politico-ecclesiastical foundations of this phenomenon. In this paper, the author approaches the problem of primacy
Georgy Zakharov
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