Well, obviously the Church evolved from council to council, but it was always eucharistic and hierachical — that is, Catholic in the modern sense.
“Well, obviously the Church evolved from council to council, but it was always eucharistic and hierachical — that is, Catholic in the modern sense.”
Or Orthodox.... and always catholic.
I think the political forces as well as the human nature aspects caused much more hierarchical junk than God ever attended and that it was well entrenched by 300 years after Christ.
MOSTLY
GOD is my hierarchy. I respect and submit to folks over me as He directs me to do. But also to anyone else He directs me to do.