Some Animadversions on Early Church Government

Authors

E. G. Weltin, Washington University, St. Louis

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