How to Be a Good Bishop? Answers and Examples from the Patristic Age
Abstract
Is high clerical office incompatible with personal holiness? Does the episcopate constitute ‘work’ or ‘honor’? This article examines patristic authors and contextualizes the issue in late antique society. It suggests that the ultimate source for ecclesiastical authority is asceticism.
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