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(2015) Meta-ecclesiology, Dordrecht, Springer.
In the era that followed the New Testament period, many potentialities hidden in the nucleus of the apostolic church unfolded. Many remained in the nucleus and faded out there. The church had quite a number of options to choose for its further development. It chose some and declined others. Reasons for the choices were different; to a great extent, they were social and political. In the centuries that followed, the church continued to make its choices. They were not always the best ones, but in making them the church always had in mind its ultimate task: to bring its members into communion with God and each other.
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Hovorun, C. (2015). Late antiquity and the middle ages: symphony and hierarchy, in Meta-ecclesiology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 37-67.
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