Digging Out the Embedded Church - The Maranatha Community

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J Gresham Machen – 20 th Century: „How great is the common heritage that unites the Roman Catholic – to devout Protestants today?‟ G K A Bell – 20 th Century: „The way to Christian Unity is not through organisation and official constitutions or elaborately organised public meetings [but through] personal relationships, personal friendships. It may be sooner than we know that those who are on the side of Christ will be compelled to stand visibly, in spite of denominational differences. To be together in action, and to be together in desire, for Christ‟s sake, may at least be a beginning of the fulfilment of His prayer that all may be one.‟ R T Kendall – 21 st Century: „The Holy Spirit in me will not fight the Holy Spirit in you.‟ Basilea Schlink – 20 th Century: „The ecumenical assignment is really a sacred commission – because it allows us to take part in the suffering of Jesus, who suffers today on account of his torn body. It is a task which should move us to the depths of our very being and should impel us, through love of Jesus, to do all that we can to heal those wounds whatever it costs.‟ Colin Gunton – 21 st Century: „The fate of Christianity in the modern Western world depends upon a secure hold on the Nicene inheritance.‟ Thaddeus D Horgan – 20 th Century: „It is at the parish level that Christian Unity will or will not happen.‟ John Nelson Darby – 19 th Century: „The outward symbol and instrument of unity is the partaking of the Lord‟s Supper.‟ Desiderius Erasmus – 16 th Century: „Consider [Jesus‟] prayer to the Father at the Last Supper, when death was imminent. One would suppose that he would ask for something extraordinary since he knew that whatever He asked for He would obtain. He said, “O Holy Father, keep them in my Name that they may be one as We are one.” See what a noble union Christ asks for us. He said not that they may be of one mind but that they might be one, and not only in any manner but “As We are one”, we who are one in a most perfect and ineffable Page 63
manner. He declared that men could be saved only by nourishing among themselves peace and concord. He called Himself a shepherd and his servants, sheep. Who has ever seen sheep fighting with sheep? What will the wolves do if the sheep tear at one another?‟ John Calvin – 16 th Century: „It must be counted on among the worst evils of our epoch that the Churches are thus separated one from another, so much so that hardly any human society exists among us, still less that holy communion between the members of Christ which all profess but very few sincerely cultivate in reality.‟ Martin Luther – 16 th Century: „It is a dangerous and terrible thing to hear or to believe something contrary to the one witness, faith and doctrine of the entire holy Christian Church, which has been maintained harmoniously from the beginning, that is, for more than fifteen hundred years, through the whole world.‟ Anonymous: „Scholars have an interesting word to describe the relationships of Persons in the Godhead. They speak of “perichōrēsis”, from the Greek words, “choros” a dance and “peri”, around. The harmony of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is that of a joyous dance circle, each dancer an individual, but each contributing to the vigour and symmetry of the celebration. Perichoresis is the model for Christian Unity; we are meant, in our glad acceptance of each other in the Church, to dance together in complete harmony.‟ Connop Thirlwall – 19 th Century: „On the eve it may be of a harder struggle than has ever yet tried our strength, common prudence enjoins us to gather and unite all our forces. At such a time the first of duties is to seek peace at home, and to strive by all allowable means to ensure and maintain it: to draw as tight as possible the bands of Christian fellowship; to deal the largest measure of charity consistent with a regard to the truth; to avoid, as far as we can, questions which tend to engender strife, or to provoke bitterness; to put the most indulgent construction on all that seems ambiguous in the words or acts of our brethren; to waive minute and merely speculative differences, and to take our stand on the broad ground of our common faith.‟ Cardinal Basil Hume – 20 th Century: „There can be no doubt that a major obstacle to the effectiveness and well-being of the pilgrim people of God is disunity in its ranks. Throughout this century it has become clear that, moved by the Spirit of God, Christians have experienced increasing frustration and impatience with divisions among themselves. Non-believers, too, readily take refuge in criticism of Christian disharmony. It is only by abandoning ourselves Page 64
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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
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That the Church should express this
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For Alfeyev, „Faith is a gift, th
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„heresies„ of the Early Church
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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
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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
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Page 73 and 74: CHAPTER 6 HOPES FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
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Page 77 and 78: a concern that merchant adventurers
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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
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Page 99 and 100: THE OXFORD TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT Anot
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Page 103 and 104: „We pray that… all who desire t
Page 105 and 106: thereof, in prayer, in the remembra
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Page 109 and 110: apostolic church enjoyed, and that
Page 111 and 112: episcopate were too radical for mos
Page 113 and 114: Denominations began to form their o
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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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