Sentences with phrase «minded episcopate»
John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....
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[17] His emphasis on the authority of the episcopate was linked in his mind with the power of excommunication which he saw as «more solemn, and its effect much greater than that of merely separating the guilty individual from the intercourse of his brethren.»
As I showed in my review, no appeal to consensus can achieve the aim that Collins and Walls have in mind, because there was broad consensus for at least a thousand years about the existence of an apostolic succession in the episcopate — a doctrine that the authors consider themselves free to reject.