Resumen de Canon Law and Episcopal Authority: The Canons of Antioch and Serdica by Christopher W. B. Stephens (review)
The post-Nicene church, until at least the 350s, was much less occupied by purely doctrinal controversies than the traditional narrative allows; the canons of Serdica should be seen as a direct response to the canons of Antioch; and the rise of Constantine provided an entirely new, universal model of leadership that would be taken up in different ways by both East and West, foreshadowing much future conflict. Stephens re-opens this debate in the first two chapters of his study through a careful re-examination of the historical accounts of the council, the subscription lists, and the canons themselves. Like any serious study on canon law, the bibliography extends even into the early modern period.
