To: Mad Dawg
What does the state have to do with it?Everything.
Prior to the power of the state being used to enforce the will of a hierarchy churches choose to cooperate or not. Now they would no longer have that option. While the mono-bishophoric system began to emerge in the 120-130 AD it still did not have any power to force cooperation. For example Clement writes a letter complaining that the church in Corinth has changed their leadership. Other than sending a letter he had no power to deny the church in Corinth the right to do this.
4,735 posted on
04/02/2008 9:41:11 AM PDT by
wmfights
(Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
To: wmfights
I think you’re confusing “power” and “right”/”authority”?
4,737 posted on
04/02/2008 10:06:01 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: wmfights
“...mono-bishophoric system....”
What’s that? You lost me, wf.
4,738 posted on
04/02/2008 12:48:02 PM PDT by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
To: wmfights
“...mono-bishophoric system....”
What’s that? You lost me, wf.
4,741 posted on
04/02/2008 1:21:38 PM PDT by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
To: wmfights; Mad Dawg; Kolokotronis
Prior to the power of the state being used to enforce the will of a hierarchy churches choose to cooperate or not. Now they would no longer have that option. While the mono-bishophoric system began to emerge in the 120-130 AD it still did not have any power to force cooperation. For example Clement writes a letter complaining that the church in Corinth has changed their leadership. Other than sending a letter he had no power to deny the church in Corinth the right to do this How's that different from Eastern Orthodoxy to this day? The Orthodox Church is organized exactly as you describe: the leader is one of the elders. All decisions are Synodal. Neither can the Synod act without the Patriarch, not the Patriarch without the Synod. His vote counts as any other bishops'.
You seem to be oblivious to the existence of the Eastern side of the Church which remains unchanged.
4,747 posted on
04/02/2008 9:15:37 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodox is pure Christianity)
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