Author: Abel StevensPublisher:
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Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An Essay on Church Polity
Author: Abel StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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An Essay on Congregational Church Polity, Etc
Author: J. M. WILLIAMS (Congregational Minister, of Chicago.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Essays on Church, State, and Politics
Author: Christian ThomasiusPublisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius's work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius's writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same time, owing to the depth of intellectual resources at his disposal, these works constitute a major contribution to the broader discussion of the relation between the religious and political spheres.
An Essay on Church Government. By a Layman of the Church in Scotland
Author: Perspectives on Church Government
Author: Daniel L. AkinPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 080542590X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The models of church government discussed are the Plural Elder-led Congregational model, the Single Elder-led Congregational model, the Democratic Congregational model, the Episcopal model, and the Presbyterian model.
An Essay concerning Church Government, out of the excellent writings of Calvin and Beza. By A. C., M.A. [i.e. Alexander Cunningham.]
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Author: a C. (M.A.)An Essay on Church Government
Author: John Alexander (Advocate.)Publisher:
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Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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An Essay on the Government & Order of a Christian Church, as Exhibited in the Holy Scriptures ...
Author: Adam MelrosePublisher:
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Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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An Essay on Church Polity
Author: Abel 1815-1897 StevensPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016445115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Concern for Church Polity and Discipline
Author: Laura Schmidt RobertsPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261014
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
CONCERN: A Pamphlet Series for Questions of Christian Renewal was born in the 1950s of shared concerns over a gap between an Anabaptist vision and contemporary, North American Mennonite reality. The initial group views the increasingly hierarchical denominational structure, the emergence of centralized, professionalized, pastoral ministry, and the resultant changes in polity and practice as fundamentally incompatible with a Believers’ Church ecclesiology. Essays here present that critique and discussion of the reconfiguration of pastoral and communal authority, as well as the assertion that reclamation of a disciplined priesthood of all believers is the path of Christian renewal. Today the question of what institutional forms best structure the leadership, authority, and shared life of congregations persists, marked by particular concern to attend to the exercise of power within actual communities of faith.