The Church And the Ministry in the Early Centuries
The book The Church And the Ministry in the Early Centuries was written by author Lindsay, Thomas M. (Thomas Martin), 1843-1914 Here you can read free online of The Church And the Ministry in the Early Centuries book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Church And the Ministry in the Early Centuries a good or bad book?
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Without any apostolic sanction, in virtue of the power lying within the community and given to it by the Master, the Church of the second century effected a change in its ministry quite as radical, if not more-so, as that made by the Reformed Church in the sixteenth century, when it swept away mediaeval ex- crescences, restored the bishops to their ancient position of pastors of congregations, and vested the power of oversight in councils of greater and lesser spheres of authority. What was wit...hin the power of the Christian people of the second century belongs to it always when providential circumstances seem to demand a change in the organization, for the ministry depends OD the Church and not the Church on the ministry. The Fall of the Prophetic Ministry and the Conservative Revolt CHAPTER VI THE PALL OF THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY AND THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLT ^ I ^HE prophetic ministry of the apostolic and immediately JL sub-apostolic times passed away in the course of the second century, and its overthrow was a much greater alteration of the organization of the churches than the institution of a three-fold ministry, important as that was.
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