Charles Joseph Leadon

Differentiated Continuity in Apostolic Governance: A Comparative-Canonical and Historical-Theological Analysis of the Western and Eastern Church's Apostolic Governance into Modern Legal Developments and Adaptations

This dissertation examines how the Church's apostolic governance, and the relation between spiritual and temporal authority, has been preserved, strained and legally encoded across Western and Eastern Christianity. It begins with the shared first-millennium inheritance of episcop...