Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
12-1-1967
Document Type
Article
Keywords
church government, cyprian's council, conciliar, bishops, collegial, roman, ecclesiastical, episcopal, nicaea, pope, primatial
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
Throughout the entire history of the Western church, two poles of episcopal government, the primatial and the collegial, have struggled to find some sort of equilibrium. At one time, as during the 15th century conciliar movement, the pendulum swung far in the collegial direction; at another, as in the 19th-century Vatican council, wide in the primatial. Vatican II seems to have been concerned with prospects of confining the pendulum's movement in the future to a more restricted arc.
Disciplines
History of Christianity
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Weltin, E. G.
(1967)
"Some Animadversions on Early Church Government,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 38, Article 69.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol38/iss1/69
