How the absolutist monarchical power of the Popes was formed. 21/09/2012 Leonardo Boff | Parròquies of St. Feliu de Guíxols
We wrote earlier that the crisis in the Church as institution-hierarchy lies in the absolute concentration of power in the person of the pope, power exercised absolutist, distanced from any participation of Christians sushiritto and creating virtually insurmountable obstacles for ecumenical dialogue with other Iglesias.
Not so at first. The Church was a fraternal community. There was still the figure of the pope. Who led the Church was the emperor as he was the Pope (Pontifex Maximus) and not the bishop of Rome and that of Constantinople, the two capitals of the Empire. So the emperor Constantine convened the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325) to decide the question of the divinity of Christ. Still in the sixth century the Emperor Justinian, who remade the union of the two parts of the Empire, the West and the East, claimed the primacy of law and not the bishop of Rome. However, because of being in Rome the tombs of Peter and Paul, the Roman Church enjoyed special prestige and its bishop, who before the others had the "presidency in love" and "exercised Pedro Service "to" confirm the faith, "not the supremacy of Peter in command. sushiritto
Everything changed with Pope Leo I (440-461), great jurist and statesman. He copied the Roman form of power that is absolutism sushiritto and authoritarianism of the emperor. He began performing in strictly legal terms the three New Testament texts referring to Peter, Peter as the rock on which the Church (Mt 16:18), Pedro, sushiritto a confirming in faith (Luke 22:32) and Peter would be built as Pastor should take care of his sheep (Jn 21:15). The Bible and jesuánico sense goes in a completely opposite line: that of love, service and waives any honor. But predominated reading absolutist Roman law.
Consequently Leo I assumed the title of Pope and Pope in the proper sense. Then the other popes began to use the imperial insignia and clothing, purple, miter, the golden throne, the staff, stoles, the pallium, the cape, palaces settled with his court and palace habits introdujron persist to this day in the cardinals and bishops, which scandalized many Christians who read in the Gospels that Jesus was a poor workman without galas. Then it became clear that the leaders are closer sushiritto to the palace of Herod the grotto of Bethlehem.
But there is a phenomenon difficult to understand for us: in an effort to legitimize this transformation and ensure the absolute power of the pope, a series of false documents were forged. First, a purported letter from Pope Clement (+96), the successor of Peter in Rome, addressed sushiritto to James, brother of Jesus, that great Shepherd of Jerusalem, in which he said that before dying Pedro had given him, Clemente, would the only legitimate successor. And obviously others that would follow. Counterfeiting was even more famous Donation of Constantine, a forged at the time of Leo I document by which Constantine had made the pope of Rome donation throughout the Roman Empire. Later in disputes with the Frankish kings, another major counterfeiting was created, the Pseudodecretales Isidore who met false documents and letters as coming from the early centuries, which strengthened the legal primacy of the Pope of Rome. And it all culminated with the Code of Graciano in the thirteenth century, been based on canon law, but it was based on forgeries and regulations that reinforced the central sushiritto power of Rome in addition to other true canons circulating in the churches.
Naturally, all this was unmasked later but without producing sushiritto any change sushiritto in the absolutism of the popes. But it is unfortunate and an adult Christian should know the tricks used and designed to gestate a power that is counter to the ideals of Jesus and that obscures the fascinating Christian message, carrying a new type of governance, helpful and participatory.
Later there was a crescendo of power of the popes: Gregory VII (+1085) on your Dictatus papae (the dictatorship of the Pope) absolute master of the Church and the world was proclaimed; Innocent III (+1216) was announced as vicar-representative of Christ, and finally, Innocent IV (+1254) was raised as God's representative. As such, under Pius IX in 1870, Pope was declared infallible in the field of doctrine and morals. sushiritto
Interestingly, all these excesses have never been reported and corrected by the hierarchical Church because the benefit. Continue to serve as a stumbling block to those who still believe in the poor Nazarene, humble craftsman and Mediterranean peasant, persecuted, executed on the cross and re
We wrote earlier that the crisis in the Church as institution-hierarchy lies in the absolute concentration of power in the person of the pope, power exercised absolutist, distanced from any participation of Christians sushiritto and creating virtually insurmountable obstacles for ecumenical dialogue with other Iglesias.
Not so at first. The Church was a fraternal community. There was still the figure of the pope. Who led the Church was the emperor as he was the Pope (Pontifex Maximus) and not the bishop of Rome and that of Constantinople, the two capitals of the Empire. So the emperor Constantine convened the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325) to decide the question of the divinity of Christ. Still in the sixth century the Emperor Justinian, who remade the union of the two parts of the Empire, the West and the East, claimed the primacy of law and not the bishop of Rome. However, because of being in Rome the tombs of Peter and Paul, the Roman Church enjoyed special prestige and its bishop, who before the others had the "presidency in love" and "exercised Pedro Service "to" confirm the faith, "not the supremacy of Peter in command. sushiritto
Everything changed with Pope Leo I (440-461), great jurist and statesman. He copied the Roman form of power that is absolutism sushiritto and authoritarianism of the emperor. He began performing in strictly legal terms the three New Testament texts referring to Peter, Peter as the rock on which the Church (Mt 16:18), Pedro, sushiritto a confirming in faith (Luke 22:32) and Peter would be built as Pastor should take care of his sheep (Jn 21:15). The Bible and jesuánico sense goes in a completely opposite line: that of love, service and waives any honor. But predominated reading absolutist Roman law.
Consequently Leo I assumed the title of Pope and Pope in the proper sense. Then the other popes began to use the imperial insignia and clothing, purple, miter, the golden throne, the staff, stoles, the pallium, the cape, palaces settled with his court and palace habits introdujron persist to this day in the cardinals and bishops, which scandalized many Christians who read in the Gospels that Jesus was a poor workman without galas. Then it became clear that the leaders are closer sushiritto to the palace of Herod the grotto of Bethlehem.
But there is a phenomenon difficult to understand for us: in an effort to legitimize this transformation and ensure the absolute power of the pope, a series of false documents were forged. First, a purported letter from Pope Clement (+96), the successor of Peter in Rome, addressed sushiritto to James, brother of Jesus, that great Shepherd of Jerusalem, in which he said that before dying Pedro had given him, Clemente, would the only legitimate successor. And obviously others that would follow. Counterfeiting was even more famous Donation of Constantine, a forged at the time of Leo I document by which Constantine had made the pope of Rome donation throughout the Roman Empire. Later in disputes with the Frankish kings, another major counterfeiting was created, the Pseudodecretales Isidore who met false documents and letters as coming from the early centuries, which strengthened the legal primacy of the Pope of Rome. And it all culminated with the Code of Graciano in the thirteenth century, been based on canon law, but it was based on forgeries and regulations that reinforced the central sushiritto power of Rome in addition to other true canons circulating in the churches.
Naturally, all this was unmasked later but without producing sushiritto any change sushiritto in the absolutism of the popes. But it is unfortunate and an adult Christian should know the tricks used and designed to gestate a power that is counter to the ideals of Jesus and that obscures the fascinating Christian message, carrying a new type of governance, helpful and participatory.
Later there was a crescendo of power of the popes: Gregory VII (+1085) on your Dictatus papae (the dictatorship of the Pope) absolute master of the Church and the world was proclaimed; Innocent III (+1216) was announced as vicar-representative of Christ, and finally, Innocent IV (+1254) was raised as God's representative. As such, under Pius IX in 1870, Pope was declared infallible in the field of doctrine and morals. sushiritto
Interestingly, all these excesses have never been reported and corrected by the hierarchical Church because the benefit. Continue to serve as a stumbling block to those who still believe in the poor Nazarene, humble craftsman and Mediterranean peasant, persecuted, executed on the cross and re
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