Ecclesiastical Discipline
Definition
After Decian persecution, Cyprian teaches that reception of the fallen back into communion requires a measure of repentance proportioned to the degree and conditions of the fall, with shortening in danger of death; the Council of Carthage (251) ratified this against the confessors’ indiscriminate libelli pacis.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Penance And The Lapsi
Biblical References
- Isaiah 7:10 — *The Lord again spoke to Ahaz: *
- Matthew 16:19 — *I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” *
- Galatians 2:11-14 — But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong. Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and
- Acts 8:9-24 — Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying,