Foreword / Alan Falconer -- Introduction -- Teachers in the New Testament -- Teachers decrease, bishops increase -- Teachers at Carthage and Alexandria -- Episcopal teachers -- A magisterium of the magistri? -- Magistri as reformers -- The magisterium in the context of papal infallibility -- The threat of divorce between the magistri and the magisterium -- Theologians rediscover the church -- The magistri participate in the magisterium -- Once more the parting of the ways? -- Authority and freedom in Eastern Orthodoxy -- Magistri and magisterium in the ecumenical dialogue -- Magistri as the fourth office? -- Conclusion.
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