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Table of Contents General Introduction .................................................................................................15 List of Abbreviations ..................................................................................................21 Part 1 The Position of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church on Ecclesiology in her ecumenical Relationship with the Catholic Church ...................................23 Chapter 1: The Ecclesiology of the Church of St Thomas Christians in the pre-Portuguese period ...........................................27 1.1 The Areas of Agreement with the Catholic Church ...................................... 27 1.1.1 The Origin of the Church of St Thomas Christians ..........................28 1.1.2 The Faith and Practice of the Church of St Thomas Christians ......38 1.1.3 The Absence of Division in the Church of St Thomas Christians till the Arrival of the Portuguese Missionaries ...............41 1.1.4 The alleged Antiochian Relation of the Church of St Thomas Christians .......................................................................44 1.1.5 The hierarchical Relation and ecclesial Affinity with the Church of the East: No Obstacle to the Identity and administrative Autonomy in the Church of St Thomas Christians ...........................50 1.1.6 Mar Thoma Margam (the Way of Thomas): the ecclesial Patrimony of the Church of St Thomas Christians ...........................63 1.1.6.1 The Development of the indigenous ecclesial Identity of the St Thomas Christians .....................................65 1.1.6.2 The Development of the advanced Ecclesial Identity through the East Syrian Influence ..........................67 1.1.6.2.1 The three Levels of hierarchical Structure ..........68 1.1.6.2.1.1 The local Level: Palliyogam ..............69 1.1.6.2.1.2 The Community Level: The Archdeacon of All India ...........71 7 1.1.6.2.1.3 The hierarchical Level: The Metropolitan of All India and the Holy See of St Thomas ........76 1.2 The Areas of Disagreement with the Catholic Church ................................. 80 1.2.1 The Alexandrian ecclesial Relationship of the Church of St Thomas Christians ..........................................................80 1.2.2 The alleged Communion of the Church of St Thomas Christians with the Roman Catholic Church in the pre-Portuguese Period ...............................................................84 Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 91 Chapter 2: The Division within the Church of St Thomas Christians after the Arrival of the Portuguese Missionaries ..............................93 2.1 The Synod of Diamper (1599).......................................................................... 93 2.2 The Coonan-Cross Oath (1653) ...................................................................... 98 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 105 Chapter 3: The Ecclesiology of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ..... 107 3.1 The Nature of the Church ............................................................................... 108 3.1.1 The Origin of the Church .................................................................. 108 3.1.2 The Church in the Pauline Letters .................................................... 110 3.1.3 The Church and the Apostolic College ............................................ 111 3.1.4 The pneumatological Dimension of the Malankara Ecclesiology ..112 3.1.5 The Church: various biblical Images ............................................... 114 3.1.6 The Church is One .............................................................................. 119 3.1.7 The Church is Holy ............................................................................. 121 3.1.8 The Church is Catholic....................................................................... 122 3.1.9 The Church is Apostolic ..................................................................... 126 3.1.10 The Church and the Authority of Christ ......................................... 127 3.1.11 The Authority of the Church ............................................................. 129 3.2 The Structure of the Church........................................................................... 130 3.3 The Catholicos cum Malankara Metropolitan ............................................. 134 3.4 The Episcopate ................................................................................................. 138 3.5 The Patriarch .................................................................................................... 144 3.6 The Primacy on the Universal Level from the Perspective of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ................................................. 147 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 152 8 Chapter 4: The Position of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church on the Question of the Jurisdictional Papal Primacy of the Catholic Church ....................................................................... 153 4.1 The Lack of the biblical Foundation for the Jurisdictional Papal Primacy .......................................................................... 153 4.2 The Primacy of the Church of Rome because of Rome as the Imperial Capital .................................................................... 159 4.3 No Jurisdictional Primacy, but only the Primacy of Honor of the Bishop of Rome at the Time of the Ecumenical Councils ................................................................. 164 4.4 The Universal Jurisdictional Papal Primacy of the Bishop of Rome: A Medieval Western Fabrication ..................................... 173 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 175 Part 2 The Primacy in the View of the Catholic Church ............................................... 177 Chapter 1: The Arguments of the Catholic Church in answer to the Objections of the MOSC against the Papal Primacy .................... 179 1.1 The Biblical Foundation of the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome ............... 180 1.2 The Primacy of the Church of Rome because of the Petrine Succession and the Apostolicity ................................................ 189 1.2.1 The religious and spiritual Significance of the Roman Church .... 193 1.2.1.1 The Letter of Clement ........................................................... 194 1.2.1.2 The Letter of Bishop Dionysius of Corinth ........................ 195 1.2.1.3 The Letter of Ignatius of Antioch ........................................ 196 1.2.1.4 Irenaeus of Lyon .................................................................... 196 1.2.2 The Sense of Responsibility of the Roman Church for the whole Church.......................................................................... 197 1.2.3 The Claim of the Bishop of Rome to be the Successor to Peter with Reference to Mt 16, 18 ................................................ 198 1.2.4 Rome as the Centre of Communio ................................................... 199 1.3 The Primacy of the Bishop of Rome: Not mere Primacy of Honour at the Time of the early Ecumenical Councils ............................. 202 1.3.1 Leo the Great and his Contribution to the Concept of the Jurisdictional Papal Primacy .................................................. 208 1.3.2 Symmachian Forgeries ...................................................................... 211 9 1.4 The Universal Jurisdictional Papal Primacy of the Bishop of Rome: No medieval western Fabrication, but the Result of a gradual Growth ............................................................... 212 1.4.1 Gregory the Great (590–604) ............................................................ 213 1.4.2 The Pentarchy ...................................................................................... 214 1.4.3 The Pseudo-Isidorian False Decretals (850) .................................... 217 1.4.4 The Donation of Constantine ............................................................ 219 1.4.5 Jurisdictional Papal Primacy: Solution to the Problems and the Conflicts of the Second Millennium .................................. 220 1.4.5.1 Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085) ........................................... 222 1.4.5.2 Innocent III (1198–1216) ..................................................... 225 1.4.5.3 Innocent IV (1243–1254) ..................................................... 227 1.4.5.4 The Decline of the Papacy and the Revival of Conciliarism ........................................................ 228 1.4.5.5 The Reformation and the post-Trent Period ..................... 230 1.4.5.6 Gallicanism ............................................................................ 231 1.4.5.7 The German Imperial Church Episcopalism and the judicial Powers of Nuncios ............................................ 232 1.4.5.8 The French Revolution (1789) and the Papacy ................. 233 1.4.5.9 The Ultramontanism and the Papacy ................................. 234 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 235 Chapter 2: The Petrine Ministry in Vatican I and Vatican II ........................... 237 2.1 The Petrine Ministry in Vatican