The Book of Church Order
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780804239042
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Constitutional Theology
Author: Allan J. Janssen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780802848826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the RCAs foremost researchers here offers commentary that explains the proper roles of elders, deacons, classes, and synods and details the procedures necessary for successful church life. Based on the Book of Church Order, this helpful volume will assist church leaders in their callings and prevent the myriad difficulties that arise when appropriate procedures are not followed. A necessity for every pastor, elder, and deacon.
Church Order in the New Testament
Author: Eduard Schweizer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1597528102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Schweizer listens carefully to the testimony of the various New Testament writers in order to understand the theological problem of how the New Testament church understood itself, and how it expressed that understanding in its order. The purely historical question about the form of the church at different times is seen by Schweizer as necessary, but need only be asked insofar as the actual shaping of the church is always evidence of the concept of its own nature to which it testifies. Thus, Schweizer arranges the New Testament writings primarily by the theological kinship of their idea of the church, providing a comprehensive examination of the church in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers. He treats both the diversity of views and the unity found in these writings. He also discusses issues relating to church office, ministry, and ordination.
The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order
Author: Revd Allen Brent
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9004313125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.
The Westminster Confession of Faith
Author: Gerald Irvin Williamson
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780875525938
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Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium
Author: Clarence Gallagher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1351951580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a comparative study of church order in the East and West of the Christian world. It deals with the development of canon law from the 6th century, the time of Dionysius Exiguus and John Scholastikos, up to the period of Balsamon and Gratian. While the focus is upon Rome and Constantinople, the author includes in his discussion the churches under Islamic rule, in Syria and Persia, and describes the beginnings of Slavonic canon law in Moravia. The issues of church government, the discipline of the clergy (married or celibate), and the question of divorce and re-marriage are key themes. By illustrating how these were faced in the canon law of the Christian churches of late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, the book highlights questions of unity and diversity within the Christian tradition.
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Called to Be Church
Author: Anthony B. Robinson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2006-02-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780802860651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces to bring the Acts of the Apostles forward to our time as a resource for congregational renewal and transformation.Featuring both careful exegetical study and exciting contemporary exposition, the fifteen chapters of Called to Be Church each first interpret the text of Acts as Scripture and then engage Acts for today's church. The book dives into many of the most vexing issues faced by the church then and now -- such issues as conflict resolution, pluralism and multiculturalism, sexuality, money, church and state, the role of the Holy Spirit, and more.Enhanced by study questions at the end of each chapter, Called to Be Church will lend itself especially well to small-group study within congregations. Pastors, lay readers, students, and ordinary believers alike will find the book helpful and inspiring.
The First Book of Discipline
Author: James K. Cameron
Publisher: Zeticula
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781905022182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The First and Second Books of Discipline were amongst the constitutional foundation documents of the Scottish Reformation, and for four and a half centuries have been relied on to guide the polity of Presbyterian churches around the world. Their scholarly editing and publication a generation ago helped to revive serious study in the Church's constitutional law; and this reprint makes very important material available in a time of immense organisational change in the Church. Rev Dr Marjory A MacLean Deputy Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
The Church
Author: Jeffrey Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780988668195
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