Author: M. ValentinePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781397273840
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Excerpt from The Lutheran Quarterly, 1883, Vol. 13 In proportion as men recognized the necessity of assigning to the bishop this two-fold relation to the single congregation and to the Church, they endeavored also to develop loftier con ceptions of the position and the office of the bishop in the con gregation. These conceptions, however, differed widely in them selves. Ignatius says, the' bishop presides as the representative of God, the presbyters as the representatives of the Apostles. He holds that we are to be subject to the bishop as Christ was to the Father, and he makes our relation to Christ dependent upon our relation to the bishop. According to the Clementines, the bishop is the representa tive of God and of Christ to the Church. The Church is com pared to a ship. God is the captain of it, Christ the steersman, thebishop the strokesman. He is the Visible representative of Christ. He therefore who sins against the bishop sins against Christ, and he only can be saved who submits himself to the bishop. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
