Part, Chapter, Paragraph
1 I,Intro | decentralized system of independent local Churches has the advantage
2 I,Intro | to changing conditions. Local Churches can be created,
3 I,Intro | a whole. ~Many of these local Churches are also national
4 I,Intro | Church is a federation of local, but not in every case national, ~
5 I,Intro | something more than a group of local bodies. The word .Orthodoxy.
6 I, 1 | organization, in which each local ~body forms part of a larger
7 I, 1 | in this ~way. For him the local community is the Church.
8 I, 1 | its bishop; and at every local celebration of the ~Eucharist
9 I, 1 | part of Him. Therefore each local com-~munity, as it celebrates
10 I, 1 | cardinal importance of ~the local community in the structure
11 I, 1 | the center of unity in the local ~community will occur with
12 I, 1 | vividness. ~ But besides the local community there is also
13 I, 1 | it is true, were often local in character and ~usually
14 I, 1 | already become usual to hold local councils, attended by all
15 I, 1 | province of the Roman Empire. A local council of this type normally
16 I, 1 | Council) there had only been local councils, of lesser or greater ~
17 I, 2,2 | nor does it de-~prive each local community of the importance
18 I, 3,2 | Con-~stantinople, but the local Greek population was unwilling
19 I, 3,2 | there existed in effect a local schism at An-~tioch. After
20 I, 3,2 | Greek at Jerusalem. These local schisms at Antioch and Jerusalem ~
21 I, 3,3 | and 1351, ~which, although local and not Ecumenical, yet
22 I, 5,2 | condemned by no less than six local Councils between 1638 and
23 I, 5,2 | achieved. These Councils were local, but the substance ~of their
24 I, 7,6 | closely integrated with ~the local community: usually he is
25 I, 7,6 | part in the life of his local community. (P. ~Hammond,
26 II, 0,12 | teaching; but it is simply a local western Baptismal~Creed,
27 II, 0,12 | mind: a) definitions by Local Councils (that is, councils
28 II, 0,12 | are infallible, those of a Local Council or an individual
29 II, 0,12 | treatment of the acts of Local Councils: in the case of
30 II, 0,12 | the Fathers. But as~with Local Councils, so with the Fathers,
31 II, 0,12 | other Canons were made by Local Councils and by individ-~
32 II, 2,2 | theology of communion. Each local Church is constituted, as
33 II, 2,2 | communion of the heads of the local Churches,~26~the bishops,
34 II, 2,2 | Church can have are the local Autocephalous Churches of
35 II, 3,1 | offered, not merely the local congregation are present,
36 II, 3,2 | heaven and earth. As~each local congregation prays Sunday
37 II, 4,3 | acceptance of the decrees of Local Councils (see above, p.
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