Search for dissertations about: "episcopate"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word episcopate.

  2. 1. Apostolic Succession in the Porvoo Common Statement : Unity through a deeper sense of apostolicity

    Author : Erik Eckerdal; Sven-Erik Brodd; Tiit Pädam; Susan K Wood; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apostolicity; apostolic succession; episcopal succession; episcopate; Porvoo Common Statement; episcopacy; ecclesiology; ecumenism; substantive apostolicity; successio; traditio; communio; koinonia; ecumenical method; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : A number of ecumenical dialogues have identified apostolic succession as one of the most crucial issues on which the churches need to find a joint understanding in order to achieve the unity of the Church.When the Porvoo Common Statement (PCS) was published in 1993, it was regarded by some as an ecumenical breakthrough, because it claimed to have established visible and corporate unity between the Lutheran and Anglican churches of the Nordic-Baltic-British-Irish region through a joint understanding of ecclesiology and apostolic succession. READ MORE

  4. 2. Venn and Victorian bishops abroad : the missionary policies of Henry Venn and their repercussions upon the Anglican episcopate of the colonial period 1841-1872

    Author : Timoty E. Yates; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

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