On the Church - Hardcover

Carthage, St Cyprian Of

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798199941327

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In the third century, the church faced a crisis that would define it forever: What happens when Christians fall — when they deny their faith under pressure, when they divide into factions, when bishops disagree and communion fractures? Who speaks for the church? Who holds the keys?

Cyprian of Carthage, bishop and martyr, wrote his answers in the heat of the crises themselves. This volume gathers his most essential writings on the nature and authority of the church: two foundational treatises and eight carefully selected letters that trace the full arc of his ecclesiology.

On the Unity of the Church remains the most important text ever written on what it means to belong to the one body of Christ. On the Lapsed confronts the hard question of discipline and restoration with pastoral clarity. The letters document Cyprian's running controversy with the Bishop of Rome over rebaptism — a controversy that illuminates, with remarkable sharpness, the difference between primacy of honor and primacy of jurisdiction.

Together these texts do not merely describe the early church. They ask the questions every generation of Christians must answer: What is the church? Who can speak for it? What does fidelity to it require?

Cyprian of Carthage (c. A.D. 200–258) was bishop of Carthage, theologian of the episcopate, and martyr. He was beheaded outside Carthage on September 14, A.D. 258.

Translation by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (Edinburgh, 1867); American edition revised by A. Cleveland Coxe (New York, 1885).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798199941327
• Einband: Hardcover
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Herausgeber: Coxe A. Cleveland
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