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The Basis of Union Today
Author: The Difference in Creedal Statement Between the Confessions of Faith of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Author: W. T. DaleUnion with Christ
Author: Rankin WilbournePublisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434710874
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life’s most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to be united to Christ. If you are a Christian, the Bible says that Christ has united his life to yours, that you are now in Christ and Christ is in you. This almost unfathomable truth is the central theme of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Yet few Christians today experience or enjoy this reality. Union with Christ reveals the transformational power of this ancient doctrine while addressing the basic questions of the human heart: Who Am I? Why Am I Here? Where Am I Headed? How Will I Get There? Nothing is more practical for living the Christian life than union with Christ. The recovery of this reality provides the anchor and engine for your life with God—for your destiny is not only to see Christ, but to actually become like him.
Some Comments Upon "The Basis of Union of The Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church" Now Proposed ... December, 1947
Author: Joseph Diehl FackenthalPublisher:
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Category : Basis of Union of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Chicago Commerce
Author: New York Supreme Court
Author: Union with Christ
Author: J. Todd BillingsPublisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801039347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An accomplished theologian recovers the biblical theme of union with Christ, showing how it affects current theological and ministry issues.
Public Opinion
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Spiritual Union and Communion
Author: Arthur W. PinkPublisher: Sovereign Grace Publishers,
ISBN: 1589603192
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Disturbing Much, Disturbing Many
Author: Geoff ThompsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock
ISBN: 9781532606175
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The first report of the Joint Commission on Church Union, the body whose work led to the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia was published in 1959 with the title The Faith of the Church. The Commission argued that any union between the then Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Churches should not depend on 'ecclesiastical carpentry'. Something more than bits of Presbyterianism, Methodism and Congregationalism tacked on to each other was needed. Instead, a new church, it was argued, should emerge from a 'fresh confession of the faith of the church'. The Commission asked what was it that made the church the church and how could this be confessed in fresh terms? Yet this was a high-risk strategy. The three churches were warned: If we go forward into a union on the basis of a fresh confession of the faith of the Church, we shall disturb much and disturb many. The commission maintained this approach; it finally yielded the Basis of Union, the document that became and remains the UCA's foundational text. The essays in this book assume that the posture of 'disturbance' runs through the Basis So understood, it retains its capacity to disturb, and by doing so, to enliven the pieties, theologies and institutions of the church as much now as it did in the 1970s. In various ways, the essays explore the theological background to the Basis of Union as well as bringing several of that document's key claims into conversation with some of the UCA's current theological debates, many of which might at first sight seem very distant from the concerns of the Basis. Some of the essays engage very closely with the text of the Basis; in most, however, the emphasis lies much more on the conversations provoked by engaging with it. Particular emphasis is placed on its core Christological claims. As a whole, the book demonstrates that these claims, far from being restrictive and limiting, are richly generative of theological conversation, discussion and debate. Issues discussed include conversations between the Basis and the 'historical Jesus', biblical hermeneutics, contextual theology, the Eucharist as an open table, sexuality, relativism, the commitment to scholarship and the mission of the post-Christendom church. Members of the Uniting Church will gain new insights into the theological orientation of the Basis and be resourced in new, and perhaps unexpected, ways for many of the debates and conversations presently underway in the church.