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Various. The War and Unity
The War and Unity
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PREFACE
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
I. A GENERAL VIEW
By the Rev. V. H. Stanton, D.D
FOOTNOTES:
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
II. THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE
By the Rev. E. Milner-White, M.A., D.S.O
FOOTNOTES:
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
III. THE PROBLEM OF THE ENGLISH FREE CHURCHES
By the Rev. W. B. Selbie, M.A., D.D
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
IV. THE SCOTTISH PROBLEM
By the Very Rev. James Cooper, D.D., Litt.D., D.C.L., V.D
FOOTNOTES:
UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES
I
By the Right Rev. F. T. Woods, D.D
INTRODUCTION
I. THE BASIS OF CLASS DISTINCTION
II. ATTEMPTS AT SOCIAL UNITY
III. THE HOPE OF THE PRESENT SITUATION
FOOTNOTES:
UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES
II
By the Right Hon. J. R. Clynes, M.P
UNITY IN THE EMPIRE
By F. J. Chamberlain, C.B.E
UNITY BETWEEN NATIONS
By the Rev. J. H. B. Masterman, M.A
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Various
Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918
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The usage of St. Paul's Epistles does not, therefore, encourage the idea that the application of the term ecclesia to particular associations preceded its application to the whole body, but the contrary, and plainly it expressed for him from the first a most sublime conception. I may add that there is no reason to suppose that the use of the term originated with him. We find it in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, the Epistle of St. James and the Apocalypse of St. John, writings which shew no trace of his influence.
There is no passage of the New Testament from which it is possible to infer clearly the idea which underlay its application to believers in Jesus Christ. But when it is considered how full of the Old Testament the minds of the first generation of Christians were, it must appear to be in every way most probable that the word ecclesia suggested itself because it is the one most frequently employed in the Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint) to render the Hebrew word kāhāl, the chief term used for the assembly of Israel in the presence of God, gathered together in such a manner and for such purposes as forced them to realise their distinctive existence as a people, and their peculiar relation to God. The believers in Jesus now formed the ecclesia of God, the true Israel, which in one sense was a continuation of the old and yet had taken its place. This was the view put forward by Dr. Hort in his lectures on the Christian Ecclesia[9], and it is at the present time widely, I believe I may say generally, held. I may mention that the eminent German Church historians, A. Harnack[10] and Sohm[11], give it without hesitation as the true one.
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