"Legimus supra magistrum non esse discipulum": Pope Celestine I, the "Augustinian Controversy", and the Clerical "cursus honorum"
Pope Celestine's handling of the Augustinian controversy in Southern Gaul avoided addressing theological matters to focus on two disciplinary issues, namely, the free preaching by the presbyters and the increasingly widespread phenomenon of direct ordination of laymen (mostly, monks) to the pri...
| Subtitles: | Behind the Bishop’s back. The middle and lower clergy in Late Antiquity |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
[2019]
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| In: |
Sacris erudiri
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Pages: 305-319 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cölestin, I., Pope -432
/ Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Clergy
/ Cursus honorum
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCB Papacy RB Church office; congregation |
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| Summary: | Pope Celestine's handling of the Augustinian controversy in Southern Gaul avoided addressing theological matters to focus on two disciplinary issues, namely, the free preaching by the presbyters and the increasingly widespread phenomenon of direct ordination of laymen (mostly, monks) to the priesthood and the episcopate. Celestine seized the opportunity provided by this controversy to make an apology for the clerical cursus honorum as a means of transmitting, through proper theological training, the Apostolic, orthodox tradition within the Church. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.5.119458 |