The Lives of the Popes, Vol. 1

Download or read book The Lives of the Popes, Vol. 1 written by Great Britain Religious Tract Society and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lives of the Popes, Vol. 1: From the Rise of the Roman Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, A. D. 100-1431 The title of pope, or more correctly papa, was, in the earliest days of Christianity, spon taneously applied, by the love and reverence of believers, to those who were over them in the Lord, and whom they justly regarded as their Spiritual fathers. It was the common dis tinction of the presbyters and bishops from all the other members of the church, who styled each other, in the same spirit of Christian sim plicity and affection, brethren and sisters, and received new converts into their com munion, as new members into a family, with a fraternal kiss. Not till the eleventh century was the title of pope claimed by the bishop of Rome as his exclusive right. From that time, however, it has been generally em ployed to distinguish the Roman bishop from all others holding the episcopal office in the Christian church, and has been applied to such as preceded the abovefnamed epoch, as well as to those who have more lately occupied the papal chair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.