Digging Out the Embedded Church - The Maranatha Community

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The whole dreadful period damaged the cause of Christian Unity, but it created a longing for the peaceful co-existence of the warring sides and the beginning of the concept of ecumenism (then called ‘syncretism‘). In the conclusion of her book Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, G R Evans makes the valid point that both sides, Catholic and Protestant, could only see as polarisations the issues they faced: „Scripture and tradition, faith and works, and so on.‟ She writes: „We need to recognise that a large proportion of the difficulties which are voiced today about going forward to unity are the legacy of attitudes and assumptions of the sixteenth century.‟ 54 The time had not yet come to consider the possibility that, for example, justification by faith and justification by works are not contradictory terms but complementary. Komensky, in the next century, was to point to this truth, but even his time had not yet come. Throughout the next four centuries the two sides in Western Christendom stayed apart, sometimes bitterly divided. Voices for Christian Unity in the 17 th and 18 th Century were rare but not unknown. 54 Evans, G R, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, Cambridge, University Press, 1992, p 288. Page 55
CHAPTER 5 QUOTATIONS ON THE THEME OF CHRISTIAN UNITY At this point we are going to interrupt the story of attempts to further Christian Unity, and gather together a collection of quotations on the theme culled from several centuries, mainly the 20 th Century. Alec Vidler – 20 th Century: „It is the Church of the saints and martyrs and prophets who have been the lights of the world in their several generations that has the demand upon your allegiance – not the Church which has been corrupted by wealth and worldly power. But the true Church is embedded in the existing Churches – you will not find it elsewhere.‟ David Butler – 20 th Century: „A divided church cannot easily preach reconciliation to individuals, nor to a divided society.‟ Didachē – 2 nd Century: „As this bread was scattered upon the mountains and has now been gathered together, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy Kingdom. For Thine is the glory and power, through Jesus Christ for evermore.‟ Ignatius of Antioch – 2 nd Century: „You all make up together a single temple of God, one altar, one Jesus.‟ Dionysius the Areopagite – 5 th Century: „It is not possible to be gathered towards the One and to partake of peaceful union with the One while divided among ourselves.‟ Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev – 20 th Century: „To regard today‟s Catholics and Protestants as “pseudo-churches” is totally alien to the spirit of the ancient Church Fathers.‟ George Whitefield – 18 th Century: „Though I profess myself a minister of the Church of England, I am of a catholic spirit; and if I see a man who loves the Lord Jesus in sincerity, I am not very solicitous to what outward communion he belongs.‟ John Bunyan – 17 th Century: „If you are the children of God, live together lovingly; if the world quarrels with you, it is no matter; but it is sad if you quarrel together; if this be amongst you, it is a sign of Page 56
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Introduction CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chr
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Page 57 and 58: Regulations for the good ordering o
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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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• 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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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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