Church, Continuity and Unity
- Author: H. Burn-Murdoch
- Date Published: January 2015
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107458727
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Originally published in 1945, this book presents a concise discussion regarding the importance of unity in relation to Christianity, with an emphasis on the essential importance of continuity and diversity within this unity. Notes are incorporated throughout and a bibliography is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in theology and the history of Christianity.
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- Date Published: January 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107458727
- length: 210 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.25kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Some abbreviations used for reference in the notes
Part I. The Church in the Light of Scripture: A Living Organism, the Sacramental Outward of an Inner and Spiritual Reality:
1. God and 'institutional religion'
2. Words and names
3. The church or ekklesia
4. Christ and the ekklesia
5. The ekklesia visibile on Earth
6. The ekklesia is sacramental
7. The bodily frame
8. 'We are not divided'
Part II. Continuity in the Organic Life of the Church through the Centuries
Section A. Continuity Unaffected by Diversity of Circumstance and Method:
10. Continuous variety
Section B. Known Continuity from the Second Century Onward:
10. Continuity since the second century
Section C. Continuity from Pentecost to the Second Century:
11. The tunnel
12. Verbal ambiguities and obscurities
13. Apostles, evangelists, and prophets
14. Mission and authority
15. Continuing the mission
16. Clement, and 'the other ellogimoi'
17. Ignatious, bishop and martyr, AD 110
18. St Jerome's theory
Part III. Continuity an Essential of the Church and its Unity:
19. The principle of succession in the church
20. Some discontinuities
21. 'That they all may be one'
Index of references to holy scripture
General index.
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