By Hugh Nibley
Much should be discovered from the recent testomony and different early Christian resources concerning the powers, tasks, and wanted attributes of these who initially held the workplaces of apostle and bishop. Catholics declare that Peter was once the 1st bishop of Rome, and jap Orthodox Christians assert that he was once the 1st bishop of Antioch. yet does both place mirror the apostolic or episcopal places of work thoroughly or accurately? What, fairly was once the position of bishops, and what was once their dating with apostles within the early Christian church? it truly is challenging to visualize somebody greater than Hugh Nibley to make clear this difficult and interesting topic.
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However, there existed no standing rule of hierarchy within these councils. Nibley portrays Constantine as virtually a self-proclaimed bishop, who came to assure resolution of doctrinal disputes that in a succession of previous councils and synods had failed to be mediated. This view of Nicaea was prevalent in the 1950s. While current scholarly hypothesis continues to accept Eusebius’s depiction of the emperor as divinely appointed, a sort of earthly viceregent of heaven, a variety of issues including the reliability of Eusebius’s account, complicate reconstructing the events of the Nicene council or their implication for the actual or theoretical authority of bishops.
35 From the beginning, wrote Lietzmann, “the Twelve appear as a compact group in which only three men stand out as individuals. ”36 The importance of these three is significant. It puzzled the experts from the first that while the office of apostle had to be accompanied by the gift of prophecy, it did not come spontaneously in a spiritual way nor was there among the apostles a perfect equality; in fact, the Twelve removed any validity to the claim that all believers must have been of equal spiritual authority.
Countless bishops composed letters of warning, instruction, and chastisement, both to single churches specifically and to all churches universally, but they never presume to speak with, or recognize in another, apostolic authority. These bishops appealed to the members of the church solely in the name of love, concern, or fear, and, by the fourth century, the best counsel any one of them could offer was to follow tradition and obey the voice of the council and the synod. John F. Hall John W. Welch Joseph Ponczoch Notes 1.