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4961 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 212.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , a legalizing spirit was busy building a substitute for the Mosaic system. Hermas was concerned over the outward rites of the church, and insisted on the necessity …
4962 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 220.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… appeared. Legalism and ritualism on the one hand, and false, mystical philosophy on the other, made fatal inroads. The boasted wisdom of the Gnostics diverted …
4963 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 227.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a legally recognized religion.Clear distinction should be borne in mind between the “apostolic fathers,” covering a large part of the second century, and …
4964 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 252.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… probably legal training, he lived in pagan blindness and licentiousness to his thirtieth or fortieth year, knowing well the coarseness and repulsiveness …
4965 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 255.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . His legal training is observable throughout this affirmation of rights. Juridical in style, Tertullian is ever the advocate for the unnamed army of Christian …
4966 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 373.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his legal recognition of the church, as well as paganism, as protected by the state-and, in fact, soon to be given preference by the state—there was suggested …
4967 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 376.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… he legalized bequests to Catholic-churches, and issued his famous Sunday law, although the Christian character of this last is rendered rather doubtful …
4968 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 399.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . Later legally established by the Justinian imperial edict, which was implemented by the expulsion of the Goths from Rome, Romanized Catholicism finally …
4969 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 411.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… against legalized Christianity.As a pagan, Julian again briefly assumed the title of Pontifex Maxtmus. (See Johann J. Ignatz von Dollinger, A History of the …
4970 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 492.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the legal establishment of the pope as the “head of all the holy churches,” and the designated corrector of heretics. Future chapters will reveal further stages …
4971 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 493.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , gave legal support to the increasingly presumptuous claims to primacy made by the Roman bishop.
4972 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 501.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a legal sanction for the pope’s superior jurisdiction in a decree of Theodosius and Valentinian. There had previously been another important edict, that …
4973 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 501 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
III. Legal Sanctions for Roman Primacy Obtained
4974 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 501.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Under the reign of Constantine, Christianity had become the religion of the emperor; under Theodosius, sixty years later, it had become the religion of empire, but legal sanction for the papal claims of primacy were yet to be secured.
4975 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 503.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the legal establishment of the bishop of Rome as head of all the churches—now including the East—was accomplished. Then the tide of barbarian conquest rolled …
4976 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 504 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
IV. Justinian-Legalizer of Ecclesiastical Supremacy of Pope
4977 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 507 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. JUSTINIAN PROVIDES THE LEGAL BASIS
4978 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 507.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the legal foundation for papal ecclesiastical supremacy.
4979 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 508 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
4. LEGALIZED ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PAPACY
4980 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 508.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… full legalized establishment of the Papacy to the acts and reign of Justinian, there is solid and abiding ground on which to stand. As stated, one of the first …