TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferencz,Nicholas
TI  - American Orthodoxy and Parish Congregationalism
T2  - Gorgias Studies in Religion
SN  - 9781463210731
U1  - 262/.22 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Preface to the Original Edition --; Chapter One: The Theology and Practice of Church Structure --; Chapter Two: Unity in Authority – Ecclesiology --; Chapter Three: Disunity in Authority – Present Practice --; Chapter Four: Moral Absence of the Hierarchy --; Chapter Five: The Toth Movement --; Chapter Six: Lay Societies --; Chapter Seven: Congregationalism In Orthodoxy — An Analysis --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Orthodox ecclesiology doctrinally and historically requires that all authority in the church be expressed by the bishop. The unity of authority, based upon the laying on of hands, is the lived expression of the oneness and catholicity of the church. American Orthodoxy, however, does not have such an authority structure, especially on the parish level. This study explores the divergence of practice from doctrine in the American church. The study concludes with a theological discussion of the problematic nature of parish congregationalism in Orthodoxy. It points toward the already-realized conciliarity of supra-parish structures as the paradigm for a reformation of parish authority structures
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463210731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463210731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463210731/original
ER  -