Moreover, this protest represented a massive change in the very structure of the church in order to secure the life of the churches. (firstthings.com)
They were challenging the rigid structure of the church, in which decay had already set in, in order to give breathing space to the essentially living thing that the Christian faith is. (religion-online.org)
Creeds, the canon of scripture (the books accepted as the official Bible) and the institutional structure of the church emerged only toward the end of the second century. (religion-online.org)