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## Abstract An augmented second edition of The Canons of the Council of Sardica, ad 343: A Landmark in the Early Development of Canon Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958). The earlier historical and exegetical study of the Serdican canons has been updated from that of the first edition in the light of more recent scholarly treatment of the period and of topics relating to early conciliar legislation and the Serdican canons themselves. The first three chapters—constituting Part I—are completely new, covering successively the beginnings of the conciliar movement in the second century as an inter‐congregational medium for decision‐making, the development of the conciliar system (‘councils’ in the West and ‘synods’ in the East) in the third and early fourth centuries into an exclusively episcopal forum employing the consensus process of the Roman senate and other civil deliberative bodies, the fourth‐century emergence of conciliar legislation in the form that came to be known as ‘canons’, and the final development of conciliar legislative acts from consensual agreements to ecclesiastical law during the fifth and sixth centuries. The Serdican canons are presented and studied both as a se

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Author

Hamilton Hess

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612052200

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Law