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1 | Early church support for Peter as Pope? | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 13675 | ||
Okay, I was hoping for something a milennium and a half closer to the events themselves. Someone in the eighteenth century claiming that such a "papal senate" was formed carries no more weight than you telling it to me. What were HIS sources for making this statement? Thanks. --Joe! |
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2 | Early church support for Peter as Pope? | Bible general Archive 1 | There | 13691 | ||
Oops... did the first one twice. Sorry about that. 2nd installment from the same source. In 452 he persuaded Attila the Hun to spare the city of Rome. Later (455), he induced Genseric the Vandal to have mercy of the city. This greatly enhanced his reputation. He proclaimed himself Lord of the Whole Church; advocated Exclusive Universal Papacy; said that resistance to his authority was a sure way to hell; advocated death penalty for heresy. However, the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451), composed of assembled Bishops from all over the world, in spite of the Emperor's Act, and Leo's claim, gave the Patriarch of Constantinople Equal Prerogatives with the Bishop of Rome. Hilarus (461-468) continued the policy of his predecessor. Simplicius (468-483), was Roman Pope when the Western Empire came to an end (476). This left the Popes free from civil authority. The various new small kingdoms of the barbarians into which the West was now broken furnished the Popes opportunity for advantageous Alliances, and gradually the Pope became the most commanding figure in the West. Gregory I (590-604), generally regarded as the First Pope. He appeared at a time of Polical Anarchy and great Public Distress throughout Europe. Italy, after the Fall of Rome (476), had become a Gothic kingdom; later a Byzantine Province under control of the Eastern Emperor; and now was being pillaged by the Lombards. Gregory's influence over the various kings had a stabilizing effect. He established for himself complete control over the churches of Italy, Spain, Gaul and England whose conversion to Christianity was the great event of Gregory's times. Gregory labored untiringly for the Purificaiton of the Church; deposed neglectful or unworthy Bishops; and opposed with great zeal the practice of simony, the sale of office. He exerted great influence in the East, although he did not claim jurisdiction over the Eastern Church. The Patriarch of Constantinople called himself "Universal Bishop". This greatly irritated Gregory, who rejected the title as vicious and haughty, and refused to allow it to be applied to himself. Yet he practically exercised all the authority the title stood for. In his personal life he was a good man, one of the purest and best of the popes, untiring in his efforts for justice to the oppressed, and unbounded in his charities to the poor. If all popes had been such as he, what a difference estimate the world would have of the Papacy! Zacharias (741-752), was instumental in making Pepin, father of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, a Germanic people occupying western Germany and northern France. Stephen II (752-757). At his request, Pepin led his army to Italy, conquered the Lombards, and gave their lands, a large part of central Italy, to the Pope. ______________ ME: This was the beginning of Papal States or Temporal Dominion of the Popes. Thus it slowly became known as the "Holy Roman Empire", a name rather than an accomplished fact. It existed for about a thousand years, and was put to an end by Napoleon (1806). It served the purpose in blending the Roman and German civilizations. ____________ Nicolas I (858-867). First pope to wear a crown. To promote his claim of Universal Authority he used with great effect the "PSEUDOISIDORIAN DECRETALS", a book that appeared about 857, containing documents that purported to be letters and decrees of Bishops and Councils of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, all tending to exalt the power of the Pope. They were deliberate forgeries and corruptions of ancient historical documents, but their spurious character was not discovered till some centuries later. Whether Nicolas knew them to be forgeries, at least he lied in stating that they had been kept in the archives of the Roman church from ancient times. But they served their purpose, in "stamping the claims of the medieval priesthood with the authority of anitquity". "The Papacy, which was the growth of seveal centuries was made to appear as something complete and unchangeable from the very beginning". "The object was to ante-date by 5 centuries the Pope's Temporal Power". "The most colossal literary fraud in history". "Yet it strengthened the Papacy more than any other one agency, ana dorms to a large extent the Basis of the Canon Law of the Roman Church." |
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