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Bishop Lists: Formation of Apostolic Succession of Bishops in Ecclesiastical Crises (Hardcover, 1st Gorgias Press ed)
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Bishop Lists: Formation of Apostolic Succession of Bishops in Ecclesiastical Crises (Hardcover, 1st Gorgias Press ed)
Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics, 16
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The five appearances of bishop lists in the early church mark the
principal points at which apostolic succession of bishops emerged
and developed into a crucial and well defined doctrine. Walter
Bauer long ago termed these lists, legitimately if not charitably,
oliterary propaganda.o This study delves into the political
struggles surrounding the lists and the doctrine they served to
define. The ancient Mediterranean world established legitimacy of
authority in social institutions, whether Roman, Greek, Jewish, or
Christian, by citing successions of leaders. In early catholic
churches, apostolic succession was the linchpin in the three
opillarso of tradition, succession, and canon. It guaranteed the
first and assured interpretation of the third. A social history
approach reveals political intrigue at every point of the
development of the doctrine of apostolic succession. In crises of
the first century, the New Testament recorded (monepiscopal?)
bishops and succession, and Ignatius and 1 Clement make
monepiscopacy and apostolic succession explicit. In the second and
third centuries, writers employed episcopal successions in reaction
to subsequent struggles with heresy and schism. By the fourth
century, Eusebius employed succession lists for apologetic and
edification. Ecclesiastical politics in each case reflects the
threat to the bishopAEs authority and clarifies the meaning of
apostolic succession in the ChurchAEs development. This social
history approach, examining the function of the literature within
its historical circumstances, reveals how theology developed from
politics. The development is as gripping politically as it is
illuminating theologically. Robert Lee Williams is Professor of
Biblical Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Texas. He has written a number of articles focused on
New Testament and patristic topics from the vantage point of
social-scientific methodology. Accordingly, Williams has been
active in the SBL Social World of Early Christianity, the North
American Patristics Society, the International Conference on
Patristic Studies, and the Seminar on the Development of Early
Catholic Christianity, and the American Society of Church History.
Bishop Lists: Formation of Apostolic Succession of Bishops in
Ecclesiastical Crises is a revision of his doctoral dissertation in
New Testament and Early Christian Literature completed under Robert
M. Grant at the University of Chicag
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