ISBN: 9781153831130

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV WAYS IN WHICH THE CONCEPTIONS OF THESE LEADERS REGARDING CHRIST''S HEADSHIP OF THE CHURCH FOUND EXPRESSION In dealing with this wide-spread and growing longing for deep and personal communion with God we have felt that men and women, who en masse were usually looked upon with either pity or contempt by the theological leaders of their day, were struggling to give expression to large and noble conceptions. To them the real matter of the Reformation was not the correction of views but the correction of real religion, the practical relations between God and the soul. (Forsythe, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ, p. 191.) This is why so many of them were dissatisfied with the later attitudes of the leading Reformers and turned away from those whom they had commenced to follow so gladly and so hopefully. They cared for no doctrine which could not be lived and consequently were misunderstood in a day when the theological leaders placed so much emphasis upon the verbal statement of religious beliefs. They made religion everything and took Christ seriously while many of their persecutors used religion as a convenient cloak to be put on when occasion demanded it. A time of such vast contrasts and of such portentious transitions is naturally also a time of new beginnings. This applies both to modes of thinking and to expressions of the same. Owing to the degeneration in the established churches, a new beginning had to be made in many respects and hence it is not surprising that many experiences of the Apostolic Church were repeated during the decades immediately succeeding the formal opening of the Reformation by Luther in 1519. The Anabaptists and early Mennonites were not ready for a system of theology at this time. They were just having the experi... Jacob Hermann Langenwalter, Books, History, Christ's Headship Of The Church, According To Anabaptist Leaders, Whose Followers Became Mennonites (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153831130

Jacob Hermann Langenwalter, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Christs-Headship-of-the-Church-According-to-Anabaptist-Leaders-Whose-Follo… Altro …

Jacob Hermann Langenwalter, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Christs-Headship-of-the-Church-According-to-Anabaptist-Leaders-Whose-Followers-Became-Mennonites~~Jacob-Hermann-Langenwalter General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Mennonite Book Concern; Publication date: 1917; Subjects: Anabaptists; Mennonites; Religion / Christianity / Mennonite; Religion / Christianity / Protestant;<

ISBN: 1153831139

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ISBN: 9781153831130

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