By Hugh Nibley
Much may be realized from the hot testomony and different early Christian assets in regards to 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 used to be the 1st bishop of Antioch. yet does both place mirror the apostolic or episcopal workplaces thoroughly or appropriately? What, fairly used to be the position of bishops, and what was once their courting with apostles within the early Christian church? it really is not easy to visualize somebody higher than Hugh Nibley to make clear this not easy and exciting topic.
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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. That Constantine’s temporal power was the essential determinant of episcopal compromise is undisputed.
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. Ignatius, Epistola ad Philadelphenses, in Patrologiae Cursus Completus … Series Graeca, ed. -P. Migne, 161 vols. (Paris: Migne, 1857–66), 5:828 (hereafter PG). 2. Nibley’s view that James may have held a general church office similar to that of the current Latter-day Saint presiding bishop is conjectural.
This is not, however, apparent in the Gospels, says Lietzmann;24 yet T. W. Manson notes in 1950 that it is precisely in the Gospels that “we begin with the fact that Jesus did gather a community around himself during the course of his ministry; and we may well ask what it was, if it was not the church… . It will not do to regard this group merely as the more or less regular disciples of a somewhat unorthodox travelling Rabbi… . The more the Synoptic evidence is studied, the more clearly the fact emerges that what Jesus created was something more than a new theological school.