Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson

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APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS

APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS. A Syrian work of the late 4th c. incorporating earlier elements, e.g., the Didaskalia Apostolorum (q.v.), this is an early church order detailing the roles of bishops and other clergy, the celebrations of the sacraments (Baptism and Eucharist [qq.v.]), and especially the discipline of penitents. It is presented as a series of instructions or “injunctions” delivered by the Apostles (q.v.) to their successors. Its compiler may have been a bishop of Arian persuasion (in the broad sense of “Arian”), named Julian of Neapolis, obliged to express his ideas via the medium of an “apostolic” discourse, due to the prior approval of the Nicene Creed (q.v.) and the Council of Constantinople in 381. The work was condemned as a heretical forgery by the Council in Trullo (691), but did manage to remain in manuscript circulation. It is an invaluable witness to 4th c. liturgy (q.v.); and the compiler’s particular theological opinions only occasionally obtrude.


Источник: The A to Z of the Orthodox Church / Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson - Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 462 p. ISBN 1461664039

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