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Early Christian Political Theories in the Works of Francis Dvorník
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SYSNO ASEP 0493194 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Ostatní články Title Early Christian Political Theories in the Works of Francis Dvorník Author(s) Vavřínek, Vladimír (SLU-S) SAI Source Title Byzantinoslavica. - : Slovanský ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. - ISSN 0007-7712
Roč. 76, 3 - Supplementum (2018), s. 65-77Number of pages 13 s. Number of pages 77, 176 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords Dvorník, František ; Christian political theories ; Roman primacy ; pentarchy ; principle of Apostolicity Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support SLU-S - RVO:68378017 Annotation The political thinking of the early Christianity had to cope with two fundamental problems: it was their relation to the Roman state, the relation between imperium (the secular power) and sacerdotium (the spiritual power), and the problem of inner hierarchic organization of the church structure that in the end culminated in the strives of the recognition of the primacy of the Roman see. After the permission of Christianity as one of the official religions the principle of adaptation of church institutions to the administrative structure of the Roman empire was accepted. Primacy of the bishop of Rome, the capital of the empire, was recognized without any objections. Nonetheless, when Constantinople a bit later tried to enforce its claim for a foremost position in the ecclesiastical hierarchy on the ground that it was the residential city of the emperors the bishops of Rome began to justify their primacy in the church claiming that as the successors of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, they were appointed at the head of the church by Christ himself. This principle of Apostolicity was later adopted in the East as well and became the ideological basis of the theory of church pentarchy, i.e. the co-operation of five leading patriarchal sees founded by Apostles of which the bishop of Rome was entitled to enjoy the honorary primacy only, but not any juridical rights. In the course of further evolution due to the different political conditions the church in the West attained either a total or at least a partial independence from the secular power while in Byzantium the two remained closely intertwined. Workplace Institute of Slavonic Studies Contact Dana Pilátová, pilatova@slu.cas.cz, Tel.: 224 800 262 Year of Publishing 2019
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