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By Geoffrey D. Dunn

At a variety of occasions during the last millennium bishops of Rome have claimed a common primacy of jurisdiction over all Christians and a superiority over civil authority. Reactions to those claims have formed the trendy international profoundly. Did the Roman bishop make such claims within the millennium sooner than that? The essays during this quantity from overseas specialists within the box research the bishop of Rome in overdue antiquity from the time of Constantine in the beginning of the fourth century to the loss of life of Gregory the nice first and foremost of the 7th. those have been very important sessions as Christianity underwent huge, immense transformation in a time of swap. The essays pay attention to how the holders of the place of work perceived and exercised their episcopal obligations and prerogatives in the urban or in terms of either civic management and different church buildings in different components, really as published throughout the surviving correspondence. With numerous of the participants interpreting a similar facts from varied views, this quantity canvasses quite a lot of evaluations in regards to the nature of papal energy on the planet of past due antiquity.

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