The household of God / by Lesslie Newbigin.

By:

Newbigin, Lesslie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Friendship Press, c1954.Description: 177 p. ; 21 cmSubject(s):

CHURCH

LOC classification:

BV 600 N42 1954

Contents:

Contents -- Preface -- 1. THE SETTING OF THE SUIBJECT -- I. Context -- a. The Breakdown of Christendom -- b. The Experience of the Christian Mission -- c. The Ecumenical Movement -- II. Standpoint -- III. Definition -- 2. THE CONGREGATION OF THE FAITHFUL -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. Faith as the Condition of Incorporation in Christ - The Circumcision Controversy -- b. Continuity and Discontinuity -- c. Faith Alone - The Epistle to the Galatians -- d. Faith and the Covenant - The Epistle to the Romans -- II. Critical Comment -- a. Word and Sacrament as Constitutive of the Church -- b. Two Cardinal Weaknesses of Protestantism -- c. The Inescapable Question of Church Authority -- 3. THE BODY OF CHRIST -- 1. Biblical Foundation -- a. Jesus and His Apostles -- b. The People of God -- c. Man's Setting in Society -- d. Man's Setting in Nature -- e. The Gospel Sacraments -- f. The Body of Christ in St. Paul -- II. Argument from Experience -- a. Order and Continuity as Norms of the Christian Life -- b. The Relation of Structure to Faith and Experience -- c. The Centrality of the Gospel Sacraments -- d. The True Context of Personal Relation -- III. Critical Comment -- a. Is Continuity Essential to the Church? -- b. Sin in the Church -- c. God's Mercy and the Church's Hope -- 4. THE COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT -- I. Biblical Foundation -- II. The Incompleteness of the Catholic-Protestant Debate -- a. Message, Structure, and the Spirit -- b. The Freedom and Sovereignty of the Spirit -- III. The Spirit and Our Salvation -- a. The Spirit and the Work of Christ -- b. The Spirit and Our Election in Christ -- IV. Critical Comment -- a. Ardor against Order -- b. The Range of Fellowship -- c. A Contemporary Issue -- 5. CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. Christ, Present and Coming -- b. The Believer: In Christ and expecting Christ -- II. A Threefold Paradox -- a. Life through Death -- b. Having and Not Yet Having -- c. "I Live, Yet Not I; Christ Lives in Me" -- III. The Church's Life - Faith, Hope and Love -- IV. By God's Mercy and for His Salvation - The True context of Reunion -- 6. UNTO ALL THE NATIONS -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. A Warning -- b. A Promise -- c. A. Commission -- d. A Withdrawal -- II. Implications of a Corporate and Cosmic Salvation -- a. The Tension of Hope -- b. The Task of Mission -- c. The Spirit as Earnest and Witness -- III. Mission as Essential to the Church -- a. The Dichotomy of Church and Mission -- b. The Nature of Missionary Advance -- c. The Church Facing out to the World --IV. Both Means and End -- V. Mission and Unity -- a. The Dependence of Mission upon Unity -- b. The Dependence of Unity upon Mission -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES

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Item type	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulation Books	PBTS Library	BV 600 N42 1954 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		11439

Contents --
Preface --
1. THE SETTING OF THE SUIBJECT -- I. Context -- a. The Breakdown of Christendom -- b. The Experience of the Christian Mission -- c. The Ecumenical Movement --
II. Standpoint -- III. Definition --
2. THE CONGREGATION OF THE FAITHFUL -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. Faith as the Condition of Incorporation in Christ - The Circumcision Controversy -- b. Continuity and Discontinuity -- c. Faith Alone - The Epistle to the Galatians -- d. Faith and the Covenant - The Epistle to the Romans -- II. Critical Comment -- a. Word and Sacrament as Constitutive of the Church -- b. Two Cardinal Weaknesses of Protestantism -- c. The Inescapable Question of Church Authority --
3. THE BODY OF CHRIST -- 1. Biblical Foundation -- a. Jesus and His Apostles -- b. The People of God -- c. Man's Setting in Society -- d. Man's Setting in Nature -- e. The Gospel Sacraments -- f. The Body of Christ in St. Paul -- II. Argument from Experience -- a. Order and Continuity as Norms of the Christian Life -- b. The Relation of Structure to Faith and Experience -- c. The Centrality of the Gospel Sacraments -- d. The True Context of Personal Relation -- III. Critical Comment -- a. Is Continuity Essential to the Church? -- b. Sin in the Church -- c. God's Mercy and the Church's Hope --
4. THE COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT -- I. Biblical Foundation -- II. The Incompleteness of the Catholic-Protestant Debate -- a. Message, Structure, and the Spirit -- b. The Freedom and Sovereignty of the Spirit -- III. The Spirit and Our Salvation -- a. The Spirit and the Work of Christ -- b. The Spirit and Our Election in Christ -- IV. Critical Comment -- a. Ardor against Order -- b. The Range of Fellowship -- c. A Contemporary Issue --
5. CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. Christ, Present and Coming -- b. The Believer: In Christ and expecting Christ -- II. A Threefold Paradox -- a. Life through Death -- b. Having and Not Yet Having -- c. "I Live, Yet Not I; Christ Lives in Me" -- III. The Church's Life - Faith, Hope and Love -- IV. By God's Mercy and for His Salvation - The True context of Reunion --
6. UNTO ALL THE NATIONS -- I. Biblical Foundation -- a. A Warning -- b. A Promise -- c. A. Commission -- d. A Withdrawal -- II. Implications of a Corporate and Cosmic Salvation -- a. The Tension of Hope -- b. The Task of Mission -- c. The Spirit as Earnest and Witness -- III. Mission as Essential to the Church -- a. The Dichotomy of Church and Mission -- b. The Nature of Missionary Advance -- c. The Church Facing out to the World --IV. Both Means and End -- V. Mission and Unity -- a. The Dependence of Mission upon Unity -- b. The Dependence of Unity upon Mission -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES

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