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ill-breeding; it is not according to the rules you have in the Word of God. Dost thou see a soul that has the image of God in him? Love him, love him; say “This man and I must go to heaven one day”; serve one another, do good for one another, and if any wrong you, pray to God to right you and love the brotherhood.‟ John Donne – 17 th Century: „You know, I never fettered nor imprisoned the Word Religion, not – immuring in a Rome, or a Wittenberg, or a Geneva; they are all virtual beams of one sun – They are not so contrary as the North and South poles.‟ Nicholas von Zinzendorf – 18 th Century: „I acknowledge no Christianity without fellowship. Each denomination is generally possessed of some jewel peculiar to itself.‟ Donald Gee – 20 th Century: „I do not believe that sound denominational loyalty is inconsistent with interdenominational cooperation in great affairs like Evangelism that are the business of every true Christian.‟ Dr Charles Malik – 20 th Century: „I find reconciliation and unity the simplest thing in the world if only men love Jesus Christ above everything else, and fix only on his Cross and his Resurrection.‟ Cardinal Walter Kaspar – 21 st Century: „There can be no unity as long as any given church maintains that the accepted and binding truth of another church is contrary to the Gospel. An ecumenical spirituality – will primarily be a biblical spirituality, and will express itself in the common reading and study of the Bible, which for all Christians is the fundamental common witness of God‟s salvation in history fulfilled in Jesus Christ.‟ Richard Baxter – 17 th Century: „In things necessary, unity; in things indifferent, liberty; in all things, charity. It is not as Romanists, Greeks, Lutherans, Calvinists, Arminians, etc, that we are saved, but as catholic Christians aspiring to the highest perfection. It is a great and common sin to be part of religion as a faction and to confine one‟s love and respect to a denomination instead of the church universal. Of the multitude who say they are of the Catholic Church, it is all too rare to meet with those who are of a catholic spirit. Page 57
How rare then it is to meet a man who suffers and bleeds for the wounds of the church universal and takes them to his heart as his own sufferings. Stick close to this one Bible and let nothing come into your faith or religion but what comes there; and when controversies arise, try them by this.‟ John Owen – 17 th Century: „There are many sore Divisions at this Day in the World, among and between the Professors of Christian Religion, both about the Doctrine and Worship of the Gospel, as also the Discipline thereof. That these divisions are evil in themselves, and the cause of great Evils, Hindrances of the Gospel, and all the Effects thereof in the Worlds, is acknowledged by all; and it is a thing doubtless to be greatly lamented, that the generality of them who are called Christians, are departed from the great Rule of keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace. He who doth pray always, who is not ready with his utmost Endeavour to remedy this Evil, to remove this great Obstruction of the Benefit of the Gospel, is scarce worth the Name of a Christian. …There is but one way of effecting this so blessed and desirable a Work (unity)… that all Churches endeavour to reduce themselves unto the Primitive Pattern. Let us all but consider what was the Life and Spirit of those Churches, wherein their Honour, Glory and Order did consist, making it our joynt Design to walk in the Principle of that Grace of the Spirit wherein they walked, in the Exercise and Use of those Gifts of the Spirit which were the Spring of, and gave Vertue unto all their Administrations, renouncing whatever is Forreign unto, and inconsistent with these things, and that Grace and Unity will quickly enter into Professors, which Christ hath purchased for them. But these things are here only occasionally mentioned; and are not farther to be pursued.‟ Anthony Norris Groves – 19 th Century: „Sectarian exclusiveness and the fondness of man to make his own knowledge the measure of another man‟s liberty, are deeply-rooted, bitter weeds. …It is a mark of apostasy to be of those who separate themselves from God‟s own redeemed ones. …It is ten times better to have to do with those who are catholic in a sectarian system, than those who are sectarian with no system.‟ J H Merle D’Aubigne – 19 th Century: „If you have not unity, religion is not of God; if you do not have diversity, religion is not of man.‟ Nicholas Zernov – 20 th Century: „The time has come when the members of the Church must with confidence in God‟s love and power ask him to restore the lost oneness of his flock. Page 58
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Digging Out the Embedded Church Dis
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The Maranatha Community comprises t
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Introduction CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chr
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ead, nicely browned on top. He plac
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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 and 34: position would see baptism as not t
Page 35 and 36: The Eastern Church‟s relationship
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: CHAPTER 5 QUOTATIONS ON THE THEME O
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
Page 83 and 84: everyone - from outward forms to in
Page 85 and 86: Women were not usually members of t
Page 87 and 88: work in America, shows him, though
Page 89 and 90: The aim of the conference was to br
Page 91 and 92: From 1768 Harris‟s home at Talgar
Page 93 and 94: twice more to congregations of Whit
Page 95 and 96: denominations was not their distinc
Page 97 and 98: It was from the overseas Protestant
Page 99 and 100: THE OXFORD TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT Anot
Page 101 and 102: the Church of England‟s doctrinal
Page 103 and 104: „We pray that… all who desire t
Page 105 and 106: thereof, in prayer, in the remembra
Page 107 and 108: honours the Lord and his Word; the
Page 109 and 110: apostolic church enjoyed, and that
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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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