Allen Brent examines the significance of the Hippolytan events   in the life  of the Roman Church in the early third century. Developing   the thesis of at  least two authors in the Hippolytan corpus, he   proposes a new, redactional  explanation of the relation between these   different authors and the  theological and social tensions to which   their work bears witness. Brent  reconstructs a picture of the   community that contextualizes both the  Hippolytan literature and in   particular the Statue, for which he proposes a  new interpretation as a   community artefact though universally misjudged as a  monument to an   individual.  Tertullian's relationship with Callistus is finally   re-assessed. This work is  thus an important contribution to new   understandings of a period critical both  for the development of Church   Order and embryonic Trinitarian Orthodoxy.

Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of a Monarch-Bishop (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)

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