‘The whole church is here listening’: Tracing the sensus fidelium in public discourse in the early church
This essay forms the basis for the case that contemporary application of the concept of the sensus fidelium as a vehicle for transmitting accurate doctrine relies primarily on shifts in power structures in the first several centuries of the church. By investigating two documents depicting public the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 158-170 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Origenes 185-254, Dialogus cum Heraclide
/ Sense of faith
/ Clergy
/ Layman
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBN Ecclesiology RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Origen of Alexandria
B Sensus Fidelium B Laity B Heraclian B Clergy |
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| Summary: | This essay forms the basis for the case that contemporary application of the concept of the sensus fidelium as a vehicle for transmitting accurate doctrine relies primarily on shifts in power structures in the first several centuries of the church. By investigating two documents depicting public theological dialogues in the presence of both clergy and laity, Origen's Dialogue with Heraclides from the third century and the Dialogue of Heraclian from the fourth century, I argue that the intersection of a widening gap between lay and clergy with a shrinking importance in public theological debate served actually to relocate the sensus fidelium from the efforts of powerful clergy into the lived churchly practices of the laity. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000291 |