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St. Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the Body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops in the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind...

the words that threaten the murder of we who are their own kindred. Their character is such that they are murderers in God’s sight. But they cannot murder us unless the Lord allows them to murder us. Although it is appointed to us once to die, they nevertheless are causing us to perish daily through their anger and their words, and their sinful deeds. 3.1 That we are repeatedly attacked with insults and shaken by their acts of terror is no ground, dearest brother, for abandoning the discipline of
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