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The Conciliar-evangelical Debate
Donald Anderson McGarran
Donald Anderson McGavran
其他書名
The Crucial Documents, 1964-1976 : Expanded Edition of Eye of the Storm, The Great Debate in Mission, Including Documents on Bangkok and Nairobi
出版
William Carey Library
, 1977
主題
Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
Religion / Christianity / Protestant
Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology
ISBN
0878087338
9780878087334
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wF0hAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Church is always struggling to achieve and maintain her integrity. And the fundamental issue in the struggle is always the same. Will she submit to the authority of her Lord as revealed in Holy Scripture? Will she follow his example of contending for truth by defining it against error and embodying it in her confession and practice? John R. W. Stott has written: "Dislike of dogmatism, hatred of controversy, love of tolerance, the call to close our ranks, and the spirit of ecumenism--these are some of the modern tendencies which are unfriendly to the Church's God-given task...to be a confessional Church...holding the truth firm so that it is not moved...and holding the truth aloft so that all may see it." In these days, the tendency among its leaders to decry this shift as "the new mood of traditionalism" (Lukas Vischer). They urge a reluctant Church to "take further steps" along the ecumenical road while denigrating the Evangelical emphasis as a preoccupation with "Inherited truth"--nothing less than the sin of "taking the relatively recent past as binding authority." This call is to "go back to the true source of tradition...to hear the word God addresses to the Church today." Hidden in the call, however, is the assumption that the word God addresses to his people today may be in sharp contrast to what he has spoken in the past. This book seeks to set this debate in the only perspective that really matters: the Word of God, given in many and various ways of old to our fathers by the prophets, and spoken to us by his Son (Hebrews 1: 1-2). The reader is asked to judge whether in their efforts to be obedient to Scripture Evangelicals are "resisting contemporary challenges." In their concern to be Scriptural, have they really lost touch with this generation? Or, is their understanding and performance of mission most consonant with our Lord's commission to his Church to "make disciples" of the peoples of this generation?
