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American Orthodoxy and Parish Congregationalism / Nicholas Ferencz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Studies in ReligionPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463210731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 262/.22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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