I got the Vrame book. Thank you very much for the pointer. Some of the articles in it are directly relevant to what I\'m pursuing.
Hopko, in his article in the book, says many important things that seem to be commonplaces -- that is, they seem to be taken for granted as Orthodox teachings. I would like to read prior or fuller teachings. I\'m not asking for precise references, just a pointer to the kind of book or the headings under which to look.
So here is one to start with, from p. 2: \\"We say that a parish must be the Church of Christ, and not simply a church, because, according to the Orthodox faith, every local community of Orthodox Christians must be -- and, theologically understood, is -- the One Church of Christ.\\"
Is there some place in the Fathers where this idea is laid out? In modern books, would it be under \\"ecclesiology\\" or some other heading? :confused:
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