THE RESTAURATION OF WESTERN CHURCH AUTHORITY DURING THE CENTURY OF ”ASCETIC-POPES”
THE RESTAURATION OF WESTERN CHURCH AUTHORITY DURING THE CENTURY OF ”ASCETIC-POPES”
Author(s): Mircea Cristian PricopSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, History of Church(es), 6th to 12th Centuries, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Western Christianity; Papacy; Leon IX; Urban II; Rome;
Summary/Abstract: Imposing his sovereignty over the entire world the Pope gained the cohesion and discipline he needed so much to save his Church from the abyss. But his idea had serious risks: it was copied, as justification, in some aggressive political systems with hegemonic aspirations, it entered, inevitably, in military competition with Christian states that already possessed a solid Imperial tradition and, finally, it destroyed the original synodality of the Church.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 886-893
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian