The Papacy: Its Historic Origin and Primitive Relations with the Eastern Churches, by Abbé Guettée
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Biographical Notice of the Author
Chapter II: The papal authority condemned by the Word of God.
Chapter III: Of the authority of the bishops of Rome in the first three centuries.
Chapter IV: Teachings of various church fathers.
Chapter V: Of the authority of the bishops of Rome during the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries.
Chapter VI: That the papacy, by her novel and ambitious pretentions, was the cause of the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.
Chapter VII: The Papacy which caused the division has perpetuated and strengthened it by innovations, and made it a schism.
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