PhD Topic: Visitation

Perhaps this has been done and I have not seen it, but there is a need for a study of the praxis of early Christian visitation. Check the word books on episcopos/episkep– and you will see the issue quickly become “how much authority is in this office?” and very little attention to the concrete reality of visitation — which also went on aplenty.

But, maybe I’ve just not come across such a study and it is there.