‘The Uniting Church’

1964 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Fr. Gabriel Hebert
Keyword(s):  
Joint Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Full Discussion ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

‘The Uniting Church’ has been chosen as the name for the proposed united church which is to be composed of the Gongregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in Australia, which is described in the Final Report of the Joint Commission of the three Churches which was published in Australia in April of this year.1 The Report includes a Basis of Union which is now submitted to the responsible authorities of the three Churches for full discussion and for final decision.It is impossible in a brief article to do more than summarise what is set out carefully and in detail in the Report itself. It is however a document of great importance, since it recommends union on an episcopal basis; and this is the first time that such a proposal has been made in a Joint Commission set up by non-episcopal churches.Some three years ago we had Part I of their Report, entitled The Faith of the Church—not, be it noted, ‘The doctrinal beliefs of the three churches concerned’, but rather ‘the faith which the Church has held from the beginning’. This is completed by the final Report now published, setting out the doctrine of the Church, the Sacraments and the Ministry, and not envisaging any mere amalgamation of the three church orders, but having in view the structure of the Church as it has been from the beginning and as it was reconsidered at the Reformation.

“Anabaptism” and Italy

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. DeWind
Keyword(s):  
Focus Attention ◽  
Precise Position ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
New Criteria

Modern research dealing with the radical fringe of the Reformation has by-passed the problem of that Italian evangelical movement which is usually assumed to have been connected with northern “Anabaptism.” Students of “Anabaptist” history, however, while they have sought to clarify the distinctions within the movement as well as the features common to its component parts, have laid the groundwork for a reconsideration of the precise position of the Italian radicals. One approach to the problem might focus attention on the question of the relationship of Italian reformers to the “Anabaptist” movement in general. However, it has become increasingly obvious that the term “Anabaptism” was applied to a great variety of individuals and groups which had in common little more than their condemnation of infant baptism. As new criteria have been set up for separating the parts of this confusing mixture, there stand out most prominently at the center of the “Anabaptist” movement certain sects which modern German scholars call the “Taufer,” viz., the Swiss Brethren, the Hutterite Brethren, and the Mennonites; and we shall follow their usage here. The Täufer differed from the Protestant state churches principally in their conception of the nature of the church and, in their stress on discipleship. The latter emphasis implies man's ability to lead a life patterned after the life of Christ, while their conception of the church as a closed community of voluntary believers underlay their insistence upon the need for adult baptism. This insistence, which carried with it a denial of the efficacy of infant baptism, was the point in their teachings that aroused the opposition of contemporaries, signifying, as it did, their non-conformity to established practices and institutions.

scholarly journals The Marriage Allegation No. 17: Text and Fate (Dostoevsky’s Wedding in Kuznetsk on February 6, 1857)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-157
Author(s):  
Boris Tikhomirov
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Main Body ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
Authentic Text ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

The article introduces for the first time the authentic text of the marriage allegation, compiled by the clergy of the Holy Mother of God-Odigitrievsky Church in the city of Kuznetsk in preparation for the wedding of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva on February 6, 1857. The original of this document has not been preserved, as it probably burned down during a fire that occurred in the Kuznetsk Church in December 1919. In the biographical literature, the text of the marriage allegation, which dates back to a handwritten copy made around 1916 by the priest of the Odigitrievsky Church, Nikolai Rudichev, is preserved and now stored in the Memorial House of F. M. Dostoevsky in Semey (Semipalatinsk until 2007). In 1916, it was published with a number of inaccuracies by the priest and local historian B. G. Gerasimov in the now-missing publication “Siberian chronicle.” In this article, the marriage search is reproduced from a photocopy of the lost original, which was made in 1910 and is now stored in the Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg. The signature autograph of the writer under the text of the marriage allegation makes it an official personal document, which warrants the inclusion of the marriage allegation in the main body of the Academic Complete Works of the writer, in the “Official letters and business papers” section. A significant part of the article contains the polemic with the hypothesis of Siberian local historians M. M. Kushnikova and V. V. Togulev, who believe that the said marriage allegation was removed from the Church archives and destroyed before the fire of 1919. They believe that it was done in order to hide the forgery contained in its text, which makes Dostoevsky’s first marriage illegitimate. While agreeing that the document really did contain forgery, the author of the article relies on the then-contemporary legislation in proving that the conclusion about the illegality of the writer’s marriage is a great exaggeration, and the hypothesis about the seizure and destruction of the marriage allegation has no serious grounds.

scholarly journals ’n Toets vir Gereformeerde Ekumene

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Helberg
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Personal Relation ◽  
Personal Character ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

While there is a universal interest for ecumenical involvement, the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA) suspended relations with the Reformed Ecumenical Council, the only ecumenical movement in which the GKSA has ever been involved. Criticism has been directed at the GKSA for isolating itself and for not being concerned in the relevant problematics of the day. This article indicates what the official relations of the GKSA are, how the GKSA approaches the ecumenical calling in the present situation, what problems exist in this regard, and with what test the GKSA is confronted. In order to do this an attempt is made in this article to determine what the norms for ecumenicity according to the Scriptures are. This approach will be undertaken by examining the central revelation-historical lines which occur in the Old Testament and extend to the New Testament, and by outlining the resulting data about the character and the organisation of the church. It will be demonstrated that the church is essentially concerned with the proclamation of the word and the embodiment of the requirements of the Word: not with impersonal, organisational, technical or other structures but with the personal relation with God, the Creator, Ruler and Saviour of mankind as embodied in his (covenant) people. This is a relation with God in Christ and with the neighbour, in an existential, local context and in universal perspective The test for the GKSA will be whether justice is done to the universal character as well as the confessional character and the personal character of its calling. This threefold relation will especially become clear in the GKSA's handling o f the ecclesiastical set-up in the relation with the other National Synods, from the local level up to the synodical level, because it is especially on the level of these National Synods that a lack in the personal relations or the character of these relations is apparent.

scholarly journals Syntaxonomic scheme of grassy vegetation of the upper Prut and Siret river basins

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-199
Author(s):  
Vasyl' Budzhak
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Field Research ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Park Management ◽  
Floristic Classification ◽  
Set Up ◽  
First Time ◽  
Made In

This is the first time that ecological-floristic classification scheme of grassy vegetation of the upper Prut and Siret basins within Ukraine was set up based on the analysis of field research and literature resources. The foundations for syntaxonomic scheme of vegetation was database of geobotanical descriptions «Vegetation of Bukovina», which was created on the Department of botany, forestry, garden and park management in the shell of TURBOVEG. This database contains more than 5000 geobotanical descriptions made in accordance with standardized approach. There was used cluster analysis based on modified TWINSPAN algorithm in JUICE shell for allocation of vegetation units. Syntaxonomic scheme of grassy vegetation of the researched area includes 9 classes, 21 orders, 33 alliances.

scholarly journals Limits of Power. Clerical Appointment as Part of Domestic Policy in Sweden after the Reformation, 1560–1611

Perichoresis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Mikko Hiljanen
Keyword(s):  
Annual Variation ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

Abstract This article examines state-church relations in Sweden by analysing clerical appointment processes in the latter part of the 16th century. The aim is to ascertain whether the king of Sweden could appoint pastors independently, and if not, with whom he was compelled to share the power. Earlier studies argue that the power of the king grew due to the reformation. First, this article examines the number of clerical appointments that were made in the period 1560-1611. The results reveal a remarkable annual variation in the number of clerical appointments. Second, the timing and share of clerical appointments made by the king are studied. The number of appointments made by the king is viewed against the total number of clerical appointments so as to reveal the importance of appointments made by the crown. Third, the article examines the proportion of appointments made by other authorities. The results suggest that the crown’s role in clerical appointment processes varied, but more interestingly, it was not as ubiquitous as earlier researchers suggest. Thus article concludes that crown’s power over the church in 16th century Sweden was not as vast as it has previously been claimed.

Disciplining Diversity: The Roman Inquisition and Social Control in Malta, 1743–98

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 354-365
Author(s):  
Frans Ciappara
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Tight Control ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Having lost northern Europe to the Protestants the Catholic Church tried to preserve control over what remained of therespublica Christiana. The attempt was twofold. First, it was political. The popes declared the entire Catholic world for their diocese. The government of the Christian peoples’, Pius V observed, ‘belongs to Us and We should see that they are governed with charity’. Second, the popes admitted that the Reformation had been the result partly of the religious and spiritual shortcomings of the Church itself and tried to make the requisite internal reforms. The Council of Trent defined Catholic doctrine and anathemized whoever disagreed with it. Seminaries were set up to train the clergy while the lay population was held under tight control. The Jesuits and the Office of the Holy Roman Inquisition were the main instruments of discipline. In this article I will explore the ways in which the Holy Office impinged on Maltese society during the time of the last eight inquisitors. Fortunately the archive deposits of the Inquisition in Malta are nearly complete and the recent opening of the Vatican archives has added further to our knowledge of the Maltese Holy Office.

Complaining about the Weather

John Heywood ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Greg Walker
Keyword(s):  
The Reformation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
Opening Session

This chapter sets Heywood’s Play of the Weather in the context of the remarkable opening session of the Reformation Parliament. It reads the play’s opening lines in the context of More’s savage speech describing Wolsey as a ‘great wether’ (castrated ram), and the call for redress of ‘enormities’. It looks at More’s speech, showing for the first time how the sources differ over what More said, and suggesting that More intended at least part of what he said as implied criticism of the king’s position rather than celebration of it. It suggests Heywood, inspired and provoked by the terms of the speech, offered the court a play that also gently ironized Henry VIII’s self-serving claims, and shows how Heywood may have revised the play in 1533, adding material that gently satirized the king’s secret marriage to Anne Boleyn and his claims to be Supreme Head of the Church.

The Anglican Doctrine of the Visible Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Lee Gatiss
Keyword(s):  
16Th Century ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
Significant Attention

This article examines what the Church of England’s historic Thirty-nine Articles of Religion actually mean in context when they define the visible church as ‘a congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ’s ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.’ The article clarifies the meaning of the words ‘a congregation’ here in their historical and polemical context during the Reformation, giving this significant attention for the first time in print, in order to correct common evangelical mis-readings and misappropriations of Article 19. It also unpacks the Anglican view of the marks of the church against the confessional divides of the 16th century, to locate this Article in its Reformed Protestant context against Rome. It outlines ten challenges which a properly understood Anglican ecclesiology presents for evangelicals today.

The Emperor’s Grand Inception, and the defeat of the Grand Clerk

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Sima Qian ◽  
Set Up ◽  
First Time ◽  
Made In

We now turn to the story of the great reform of the system of celestial calculation, li, that took place in 104 BCE. The decision to carry out a reform was driven by the emperor’s obsession with finding a way to escape death by becoming an ‘immortal’. The official astronomer, Sima Qian, appears to have been pushed aside in favour of experts drawn from outside the bureaucracy. Once the reform was concluded, disputes did not cease. Around 78 BCE it was claimed that the system set up in 104 BCE was fundamentally flawed. For the first time we see a detailed account of the use of systematic observation of the heavens to provide a basis for deciding whether a system of celestial calculation was correct. Finally, we examine attempts made under the late Western Han to give an account of how such calculations were made in past ages.

Humankind in Christ and Christ in Humankind: Salvation as Participation in Our Substitute in the Theology of John Calvin

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Hart
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

The act of God in bringing salvation to the human race and summoning individuals into a community to serve him is due solely to the mercy and grace of God, mediated and manifested through Jesus Christ in his ministry, atoning death and rising again.1 This statement of belief, taken from the recently published ARCIC II document Salvation and the Church, is one to which Christians of most denominations could probably subscribe. Yet the very existence of the document is testimony to the fact that within the Christian Church there have been widely differing interpretations of the precise nature of salvation and its implications for humankind. At the time of the Reformation disagreement as to the theological import of terms such as ‘grace’, ‘justification’ and ‘sanctification’ was a major cause of division between Rome and the Protestant churches. Were they primarily to be given an objective or subjective, an extrinsic or intrinsic reference in relation to the believer? ARCIC II demonstrates that these are still live issues at the interface of ecumenical dialogue today, and must be resolved if real moves are to be made in the direction of Christian unity.

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