In A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages, a select group of scholars explain the rise and function of priests and deacons in the Middle Ages. Though priests were sometimes viewed through the lens of function, the medieval priesthood was also defined ontologicallythose marked by God who performed the sacraments and confected the Eucharist.
While their role grew in importance, medieval priests continued to fulfil the role of preacher, confessor and provider of pastoral care. As the concept of ordination changed theologically the practices and status of bishops, priests and deacons continued to be refined, with many of these medieval discussions continuing to the present day.
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2 Apostolic Successors: Priests and Priesthood, Bishops, and Episcopacy in Medieval Western Europe |
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3 Ordinatio and the Priesthood in the Early Middle Ages and Its Visual Depiction |
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4 Priesthood in the Byzantine Empire |
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5 Married Clergy in Eastern and Western Christianity |
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6 The Imago Christi in the Bishop, Priest, and Clergy |
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7 Priests and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages |
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8 The Priesthood and the Sacrament of Marriage |
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9 Teaching Confession in Thirteenth-Century England: Priests and Laity |
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10 Reforming Priests and the Diverse Rhetorics of Ordination and Office from 1123--1418 |
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11 The Radical Renewal of Pastoral Care in the Italian Communes 1150--1250: Prelates, Secular Clergy, and the Mendicant Orders |
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12 From Function to Ontology: The Shifting Diaconate of the Middle Ages |
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Greg Peters, Ph.D. (2003), University of St. Michaels College, is Associate Professor of Medieval and Spiritual Theology at Biola University. He has authored Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (PIMS, 2011) and The Story of Monasticism (Baker, 2015).
C. Colt Anderson, Ph.D. (1998), Marquette University, is Dean of Graduate School of Religion of Religious Education at Fordham University. He is the author of Christian Eloquence: Contemporary Doctrinal Preaching (Hillenbrand, 2005) and The Great Catholic Reformers (Paulist, 2007).
