The Silence of Bishops in Ignatius
Among the many remarkable features of Ignatius' letters there is perhaps nothing more curious than his peculiar ideas about the value attaching to silence. There is something almost comic in his insistence that when a bishop is saying nothing he is then to be regarded with special awe. It is ap...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1950
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1950, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-172 |
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| Summary: | Among the many remarkable features of Ignatius' letters there is perhaps nothing more curious than his peculiar ideas about the value attaching to silence. There is something almost comic in his insistence that when a bishop is saying nothing he is then to be regarded with special awe. It is apparently his firm conviction that the best thing a bishop can do is to refrain from speech altogether. The purpose of this brief note is to attempt an interpretation of the passages where he brings forward this notion, and to suggest that the explanation of them in the standard commentators upon Ignatius' epistles is not satisfactory. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000024457 |