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The See of Peter

The See of Peter presents in translation, three distinct sets of texts on the ascendancy of the Papacy within the Roman Catholic Church.
Print Book, English, ©1991
Columbia University Press, New York, ©1991
History
xxvi, 737 pages ; 23 cm.
9780231096355, 0231096356
23139256
Book I. The Petrine tradition. pt. I. New Testament texts. Jesus and Peter ; Peter and the other Apostles ; Peter in Rome and the founding of the Roman Church ; pt. II. The tradition accepted as historical. Peter the preacher at Rome ; Peter the Roman martyr ; Peter the founder of the Roman episcopate ; pt. III. The apocryphal tradition. Beginnings of the Simon Magus legend ; The legend of Peter and Simon (180-220) ; References to the Petrine legend in third century literature ; Development of the Petrine legend during the third century ; Development of the legend during the fourth and fifth centuries ; References to the Petrine legend by the Fathers of the fourth and fifth century ; Later elaboration of the legend ; Relics of the legend
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