Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism: Representative Ministry in Church History from the Age of Ignatius of Antioch to the Reformation. with Special Refe

by Allen Brent

Bishops are to be understood primarily as representatives of cultures regardless of where their people are territorially located. The vindication of this thesis has implications also for ecumenical reconciliation between episcopal and non-episcopal communions occupying the same geographical territory.
The author compares the approaches and insights of both Vatican II and Lambeth 89 on this issue, and then proceeds to a historical and theological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004094326
• ISBN13: 9789004094321
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.7"