Resumen de St. Cyprian of Carthage and the College of Bishops by Benjamin Safranski (review)
[...]Cyprian also declared before his fellow African bishops, "For neither does any one of us set himself up as a bishop of bishops or, by tyrannical terror force his colleagues into yielding to him by necessity, since each bishop has his own judgment, on account of his freedom and power: he can no more be judged by another than he can judge another himself" (Sent. [...]it is plainly evident that a man does not hold the truth of the Holy Spirit with the rest of his colleagues when we find that his opinions are different from theirs" (Ep. 68.5.2). Whilst this "localist" theory has laudable ecumenical aspirations for reconciling Catholic and Orthodox churches, it also fails to address the crucial question of what happens to communion when churches are in severe disagreement about fundamental issues.
