What is it about?
The emergence of a monarch bishop at Rome in the early third century from a fragmented Christian community consisting of a loose confederation of house churches
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Why is it important?
An explanation of the origin of the Papacy in the late second century.
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It is founded on an analysis archaeological artifacts as well as literary works.
Allen Brent
King's College
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This page is a summary of: Augustine’s Cyprian. Authority in Roman Africa, by Matthew Alan Gaumer, Church History and Religious Culture, January 2018, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09801006.
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