• Home
  • Patrologia
    • Jacques Paul Migne.
    • Garnier Fréres.
    • René Graffin.
    • François Nau.
    • Les Patrologies Syriaque et Orientale et la Revue de L’Orient Chrétien.
    • Classical Definitions.
      • Bardenhewer. Notion and Purpose of Patrology. 1908.
      • Bardenewer. History and Literature of Patrology. 1908.
      • Hamman. Les pierres de l’Église. 1977.
      • Moehler. De la dénomination de Pères de l’Église. Différences entre les écrivains ecclésiastiques. Division. 1843.
      • Quasten. The Concept and History of Patrology.
      • Quasten. The ‘Fathers’ of the Church.
  • Miscellanea.
    • Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina.
    • Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis.
    • Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
    • Aramaic Miscellaneous in Journal Asiatique
    • Analecta Bollandiana.
    • Revue de l’Orient Chrétien
    • Peshitta: Online Resources.
    • BNF-Gallica & Googlebooks: Patrologia Latina.
    • Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études
  • Links.
  • Amici.
  • Bibliotheca Pretiosa
  • Scribd Collections
  • Weblog
  • Contact

Patrologia

Latina, Graeca et Orientais

  • Home
  • Patrologia
    • Jacques Paul Migne.
    • Garnier Fréres.
    • René Graffin.
    • François Nau.
    • Les Patrologies Syriaque et Orientale et la Revue de L’Orient Chrétien.
    • Classical Definitions.
      • Bardenhewer. Notion and Purpose of Patrology. 1908.
      • Bardenewer. History and Literature of Patrology. 1908.
      • Hamman. Les pierres de l’Église. 1977.
      • Moehler. De la dénomination de Pères de l’Église. Différences entre les écrivains ecclésiastiques. Division. 1843.
      • Quasten. The Concept and History of Patrology.
      • Quasten. The ‘Fathers’ of the Church.
  • Miscellanea.
    • Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina.
    • Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis.
    • Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
    • Aramaic Miscellaneous in Journal Asiatique
    • Analecta Bollandiana.
    • Revue de l’Orient Chrétien
    • Peshitta: Online Resources.
    • BNF-Gallica & Googlebooks: Patrologia Latina.
    • Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études
  • Links.
  • Amici.
  • Bibliotheca Pretiosa
  • Scribd Collections
  • Weblog
  • Contact

Offtopic. Guettée: The papacy its historic origin and primitive relations with the Eastern churches

May 14, 2009 Church History Offtopic Opinions/Comments No Comments

A catholic priest who becomes an orthodox, involved in the sad and violent movements regarding the promulgation of the 1854 catholic dogma about the Immaculate Concepcion of the Holy Virgin, this writter make several books where shows a clear and high argumentation about some topics very difficult, even today.

An article of 1992 show the process involved in the pass from the catholic church into the orthodox, you can read the whole article here.

In the quotes taked from the self writtings of Guettée, we can read [i copy from the original article]:

“From my conversations with His Grace,” wrote Fr. Guettée, “it became clear that although formally I was not Orthodox, I was nevertheless a genuinely Orthodox writer….And I fervently desired to become Orthodox in deed, i.e., to belong to the Russian Church.” An exception was made and, by order of the Holy Synod, Guettée was received into the Orthodox Church in his clerical rank (under the present circumstances such economy would clearly be inadmissible). “I became Orthodox,” said Fr. Guettée, “without having read a single book about Orthodoxy, simply having studied the Fathers of the Church, the decrees of the first ecumenical councils, and the incontestable facts of the history of the Church.”

The book what here we share deals with the trouble of the papacy, his origins and the historic development in the first centuries of the christianism.

It is not a easy reading, several proposes and statues strike us to a new points of view about some ‘pre-existent’ historical concepts.

We take the Roman episcopate at the origin of Christianity, follow it through centuries, and are able to prove incontestably, that during eight centuries the spiritual Papacy, as we understand it at the present day, had no existence ; that the bishop of Rome was during three centuries only a bishop^ with the same rank as the others that in the fourth century he received a primacy of honor without universal jurisdiction ; that this honor has no other foundation than the decrees of the Church; that his restricted jurisdiction over certain neighboring churches is supported only upon a custom legalized by Councils.
As for the universal sovereignty, absolute, of divine right—in other words, the Papacy—facts and catholic testimony of the first eight centuries condemn instead of sustaining it.
History reveals to us the Papacy, after several fruitless attempts, taking its birth from circumstances and establishing itself in the ninth century, with its double political and ecclesiastical character. Its real founder was Adrian L Nicholas I. chiefly contributed to its development ; Gregory VII. raised it to its loftiest pitch.

A book of hard reading, but a good analysis under the patristic and apostolic thoughts.

Available via Internet Archive.

ChristianismInternet Archive

Patristic study

Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Recent entries
  • [Open-Access.] Book. Schirner. ‘Inspice diligenter codices’. Philologische Studien zu Augustins Umgang mit Bibelhandschriften und -übersetzungen. 2015.
  • Book. Cureton. Spicilegium syriacum: Containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion. 1855.
  • [Open-access.] Book. The Apocalypse of Peter in Context. Maier D.C., Frey J., Kraus T.J. 2024.
  • Book. Valentin. Saint Prosper d’Aquitaine : étude sur la littérature latine ecclésiastique au cinquième siècle en Gaule. 1900.
  • Book. Quentin. Les martyrologes historiques du Moyen-Âge : étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain. 1908.
  • Book. Alfaric. L’évolution intellectuelle de sain Augustin. Du manichéisme au néoplatonisme. 1918.
  • Book. Lebreton. Histoire du dogme de la Trinité des origines au Concile de Nicée. Volumes 1 and 2. 1910.
Indaganda in situ:
Categories
Archives

Print Friendly and PDF

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Doo by ThemeVS.