The social contexts of The Flowing Light of the Godhead by Mechthild of Magdeburg 7 : Papal Primacy 4

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  • マクデブルクのメヒティルト著『神性の流れる光』の社会的背景 7 : 教皇の首位権 （4）
  • マクデブルク　ノ　メヒティルト　チョ　シンセイ　ノ　ナガレル　ヒカリ　ノ　シャカイテキ　キョウコウ　ノ　シュイケン

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Some grounds show that the episode in the Gospel according to St. Matthew 16:18 in which Damasus I claimed the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome is only a fiction imported later into the Bible, and it is very doubtful that St. Peter served as the Bishop of Rome and suffered martyrdom in Neronian Rome. But at that time, no one remained who knew exactly about his acts and death. And so the traditions about St. Peter, regarded as facts, have come down even to the present day. Furthermore, not only the Roman Bishops but also other Bishops in the western part of the Roman Empire began to construct stories, and circulated them as “traditions” in order to establish the authority of the Roman Church, the only one “Sedes Apostolica” in the western part of the Roman Empire, and the church of the capital of the Empire where Jesus Christ was born. This tendency continued ever after. But as a matter of course, for the bishops of the Eastern Church, with its many Sedes Apostolicas that had the very same importance as the Roman Church, the unreasonable claim for the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome was not acceptable, and the insistence of the Roman Church on this claim would lead to the Schism of the East.

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