Hippolytus and the Cabbage Question: Beyond Acceptable Discipline and Diversity

Autor: Christine Trevett
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Studies in Church History. 43:36-45
ISSN: 2059-0644
0424-2084
DOI: 10.1017/s0424208400003089
Popis: Usually it is those of the mainstream in religion who impose upon those going against the flow discipline, doctrine and uniformity in place of flexibility. Before Christian orthodoxy and heresy had achieved clear definition, however, there were against-the-flow innovators who opposed flexibility. By requiring greater rigour and regularity in Christian practices they highlighted questions of authority and what manner of people might exercise it. The Church’s own self-definition and status as an institution evolved in response to such things.
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