Digging Out the Embedded Church - The Maranatha Community

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In 391 AD he returned to his native Algeria and became ordained as a priest; four years later he was appointed assistant bishop of Hippo, and soon after full bishop. Here he founded a monastery and a school to train clergy. He died there in 430 AD as Vandal invaders were attacking the city. Augustine‟s influence on the future doctrine and development of the Church was immense. He wrote against the Donatists and Pelagians, who, in his eyes, harmed the Church, the one by schism from it, the other by making man his own saviour and by denying original sin in man. Against them, Augustine taught that the Church was not an exclusive company of the „pure‟ but a mixture of the good and bad, and that sacraments performed in Christ‟s name outside the Church were valid. Against the Pelagians he developed both his strong sense of the grace of God, giving us in Christ what we could never deserve, and his conviction that it is the sovereignty of God alone which chooses the elect to salvation. This high view of the sovereignty of God was to mould the thinking of almost all the early 16 th Century Protestant Reformers in Europe; it was to be the cause of a reaction to its severity in the 17 th Century in the theology of Arminius and others; and it is a source of contention still with us today. Augustine‟s great work On the Trinity emphasised the equality of the Persons of Father, Son and Holy Spirit over against earlier views of the subordination of Son and Holy Spirit within the Godhead. When the city of Rome fell to the invading Visigoths under the semi-Arian Alaric in 410 AD, and people were conscious of an era coming to an end, Augustine took nearly 25 years to write The City of God (412-426 AD), which was to mould Church thinking on the relationship of Church and State for very many years to come. In it, World Empires constituted the Earthly City, the Church the Heavenly City. There in the heavenly city are the predestined of God. The Church, as the heavenly city, is destined to rule the world as a visible body empowered by God to correct and teach the secular State, whose duty is to support and further true Godliness. In this way Augustine opened a vision of the Church which was to dominate the medieval Church‟s thinking about its place on earth. The head of the Church on earth, which increasingly from the 5 th Century onwards was seen in the West and the Bishop of Rome, had a duty to guide the affairs of men: the Papacy became involved in the affairs of princes even to engaging in military action to promote the Church‟s interest. To understand the Catholic concept of the Church today, we must understand Cyprian‟s stress on the importance of bishops as God‟s appointed rulers and Augustine‟s strong sense that the Church has a visible present on earth in a body to which all Christians should belong. Later in history some Christians (Protestants) would abandon an Episcopal view of church government and others reject the role of the Church as mentor to the State, and instead advocate that the Church withdraw from the world and its society. As for the Eastern part of the Church, it did not develop a Papacy or centralized control. It looked to the seven Ecumenical Councils from 325 to 787 AD as authoritative for doctrine and order, and it accepted the ancient Eastern churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem as leading, autocephalous (literally „self-headed‟) churches. Page 29
The Eastern Church‟s relationship with the Papacy was from early years strained, and it became openly hostile in the 11 th Century. The Orthodox concept of the Church was that of a body of believers in whom the Christ dwelt, especially through their participation in the Eucharist, rather than a structured community of believers all owning allegiance to a central God-appointed head on earth. Page 30
Page 1 and 2: Digging Out the Embedded Church Dis
Page 3 and 4: The Maranatha Community comprises t
Page 5 and 6: Introduction CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chr
Page 7 and 8: ead, nicely browned on top. He plac
Page 9 and 10: HOW DO WE DIG OUT THE EMBEDDED CHUR
Page 11 and 12: That the Church should express this
Page 13 and 14: For Alfeyev, „Faith is a gift, th
Page 15 and 16: „heresies„ of the Early Church
Page 17 and 18: Traditionally, the Church has made
Page 19 and 20: CHAPTER 1 CHRISTIAN UNITY IN THE EA
Page 21 and 22: A certain Docetic teacher, often id
Page 23 and 24: Novatianism When the persecutions o
Page 25 and 26: The fortunes of the Arian party in
Page 27 and 28: An attempt was made in 482 AD (29 y
Page 29 and 30: was development in the interpretati
Page 31 and 32: CYPRIAN AND AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The
Page 33: position would see baptism as not t
Page 37 and 38: insisted from the second Lateran Co
Page 39 and 40: There is so much that Orthodoxy sha
Page 41 and 42: we do not talk to each other. Our t
Page 43 and 44: The question of heresy does not com
Page 45 and 46: They were missionary-minded and the
Page 47 and 48: Lollard ideas lingered in English r
Page 49 and 50: CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND GREAT SPLIT: W
Page 51 and 52: unity‟s sake in subsequent centur
Page 53 and 54: Erasmus wrote he asserts, through o
Page 55 and 56: attle-cry, is perhaps the most famo
Page 57 and 58: Regulations for the good ordering o
Page 59 and 60: Eucharist was not just a commemorat
Page 61 and 62: CHAPTER 5 QUOTATIONS ON THE THEME O
Page 63 and 64: How rare then it is to meet a man w
Page 65 and 66: are often much bigger divisions bet
Page 67 and 68: St Germanus of Constantinople - 8 t
Page 69 and 70: manner. He declared that men could
Page 71 and 72: S L Greenslade - 20 th Century: „
Page 73 and 74: CHAPTER 6 HOPES FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
Page 75 and 76: imminent return of Christ (Komensky
Page 77 and 78: a concern that merchant adventurers
Page 79 and 80: also anti-Socinian. Calixtus himsel
Page 81 and 82: The Eastern Churches were not rent
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Women were not usually members of t
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work in America, shows him, though
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The aim of the conference was to br
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From 1768 Harris‟s home at Talgar
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twice more to congregations of Whit
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denominations was not their distinc
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It was from the overseas Protestant
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THE OXFORD TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT Anot
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the Church of England‟s doctrinal
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„We pray that… all who desire t
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thereof, in prayer, in the remembra
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honours the Lord and his Word; the
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apostolic church enjoyed, and that
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episcopate were too radical for mos
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Denominations began to form their o
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In this Shanghai Conference‟s Rep
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With so much talk of unity and coop
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„The liturgical movement in weste
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• Sharing a corporate life of wit
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• Our acknowledgement of the Apos
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(h) The Evangelical Church in Germa
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It changed nothing in respect of do
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Some Evangelical Protestants want t
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• It is in continuity with the
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But things have changed. Richard Ma
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evangelism - (and) state what the r
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Repentance and faith are at the hea
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outcome of being justified. Agreeme
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Virgin‟s salutary influence on me
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h) Confession The sacrament of pena
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demanding way would be sin. The que
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If the opportunity for the Church t
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Ministers, priests and laypeople in
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West Kirby, near to my home, the Si
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n) Shared Study Courses There is a
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Even some Protestant churches today
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Vincent de Lérins spoke of a „pr
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It is not likely, in the foreseeabl
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Christ and are trying their best to
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upon the name of our Lord Jesus Chr
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Perhaps this dying process is now b
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economic factors giving rise to suc
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deeper ecumenism, one that does not
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APPENDIX 1 THE NICENO-CONSTANTINOPO
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APPENDIX 2 FOUR BIBLICAL TEXTS ON T
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The „apostles and elders‟ of th
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„The purpose of the Reformation C
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What all three traditions have in c
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Cromwellian period, in a treatise o
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS
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Cullman, Oscar, The Earliest Christ
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McCarthy, Tim, The Catholic Traditi
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Letter concerning the civil princip
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Coptic Orthodox Church, 10 Council
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Parousia, 24, 68, 93 Paul VI, 10, 1
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