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St. Cyprian of Carthage and the College of Bishops (Hardcover)
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St. Cyprian of Carthage and the College of Bishops (Hardcover)
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This book assesses episcopal cooperation as envisioned by the
third-century bishop Cyprian of Carthage. It outlines and assesses
the interactions between local bishops, provincial groups of
bishops, and the worldwide college. Assessing these interactions
sheds light on the relationship between Cyprian's strong sense of
local autonomy and the reality that each bishop was responsible to
the world-wide college. Episcopal consensus was the sine qua non,
for Cyprian, for a major issue of faith or practice to become one
that defined membership in the college and, ultimately, the Church.
The book brings this assessment into a modern scholarly debate by
concluding with an evaluation of the ecclesiology of the Orthodox
scholar Nicolas Afanasiev and his critiques of Cyprian. Afanasiev
lamented Cyprian as the father of universal ecclesiology and
claimed that Cyprian's college wielded authority above that of the
local bishop. This book argues that Afanasiev fundamentally
misconstrued Cyprian's understanding of collegiality. It is shown
that, for Cyprian, collegiality was the framework for the common
ministry of the bishops and did not infringe on the sovereignty of
the local bishop. Rather, it was the college's collective duty to
define the boundaries of acceptable Christian belief and practice.
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