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In Search of the New Testament Church
Author | : C. Douglas Weaver |
Publsiher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0881461059 |
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When John Smyth organized the first Baptist church, he wanted to establish the New Testament church; believer's baptism was the missing link. Baptists of subsequent eras often continued the search to embody "New Testament Christianity." Unique to surveys of Baptist life, Doug Weaver highlights this restorationist theme as a way to understand Baptist identity. Weaver does not force the theme, but the "search" is ever present. It is found in the insistence upon believer's baptism, but also in examples like the Sabbath worship of Seventh Day Baptists, the "nine rites" of colonial Separate Baptists, the women preachers of Free Will Baptists, the "trail of blood" of Landmarkism, the social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, the "fundamentals" of fundamentalism and the ministry of the European pioneer Johann Oncken. Like other recent Baptist studies, Weaver describes Baptist diversity. Still, he highlights the persistent commitment of most Baptists to an informal constellation of "Baptist distinctives." Alongside the quest for the New Testament church (and congregational community), Weaver especially highlights the Baptist commitment to religious liberty and the individual conscience. This emphasis, while later reinforced by Enlightenment ideals, could already be found in the biblicist piety of the earliest Baptists who insisted that individual believers must have the right to choose their religious beliefs because they would stand alone before God at the final judgment. Both chronological and thematic, this book addresses such themes as the role of women, the social gospel, ecumenism, charismatic influences, and theological emphases in Baptist life. The book's focus is America, but it also includes helpful introductory chapters on early English Baptists and international Baptists.
The New Testament Church Then and Now
Author | : E. LeRoy Lawson,LeRoy Lawson |
Publsiher | : Standard Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0784704910 |
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LeRoy Lawson gives a clear picture of the first church--then explains why we need to belong to a church, how a church should be organized and stuctured, salvation, worship, and the meaning of New Testament Church.
The Church According to the New Testament
Author | : Daniel J. Harrington |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1580511112 |
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In the last days of the twentieth century, leading New Testament scholar and popular preacher Daniel Harrington, S.J., asked himself two powerful questions: What might the church of the first century have to say to the church of the twenty-first century? And How might a brief sythesis of what the New Testament says and does not say about the church help bring greater vitality within and unity among the churches? The result of Father Harrington's research and thinking is this timely and important book.
In Search of the Church
Author | : Keith A. Russell, President, New York Theological Seminary |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781566995597 |
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Contents: Preface I. Introduction: In Search of the Church II. Mark: An Alternative Community III. Matthew: Households of Justice IV. Luke: Signs of the Kingdom V. Paul: Communities of Reconciliation VI. 1 Peter: Homes for the Homeless VII. The Apocalypse of John: Communities of Resistance VIII. In Search of the Church: An Invitation
The Untold Story of the New Testament Church
Author | : Frank Viola |
Publsiher | : Destiny Image Publishers |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780768422368 |
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Using a 'you-are-there' approach, this book gives readers a first-hand account of how the witness of Christ's testimony impacted the world. --from publisher description.
The Search for the Early Church
Author | : William Steuart McBirnie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 084235834X |
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The New Testament Church
Author | : John P. Harrison,James D. Dvorak |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781608999989 |
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Christian communities today face enormous challenges in the new contexts and teachings that try to redefine what churches should be. Christians look to the New Testament for a pattern for the church, but the New Testament does not present a totally uniform picture of the structure, leadership, and sacraments practiced by first-century congregations. There was a unity of the Christian communities centered on the teaching that Jesus is the Christ, whom God has raised from the dead and has enthroned as Lord, yet not every assembly did exactly the same thing and saw themselves in exactly the same way. Rather, in the New Testament we find a collage of rich theological insights into what it means to be the church. When leaders of today see this diversity, they can look for New Testament ecclesiologies that are most relevant to the social and cultural context in which their community lives. This volume of essays, written with the latest scholarship, highlights the uniqueness of individual ecclesiologies of the various New Testament documents and their core unifying themes.
The Search for the Truth of God
Author | : J. D. Terrell |
Publsiher | : Kevin Hickling |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Christian sects |
ISBN | : 9781871126068 |
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