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Little Sister: A Second Israel in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Little Sister: A Second Israel in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Halliday, Bob

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General Christianity

Publisher Price: $33.00

ISBN10: 1625643667
ISBN13: 9781625643667
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: Mar 18 2014
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Christian state church emerged from the religion of pagan Rome. A declining western empire gave the church political power, but provoked conflict between church and state. In the Scottish post-Reformation Stewart monarchy, the king claimed to control the church by divine right. Covenanters exchanged state control for a theocracy built on the idea that Scotland, like Israel, had a God-given destiny. As the purest kirk in Christendom, nation and kirk were the political and religious faces of one body. Like pre-Christian Israel, Scotland was one of the only two nations ever covenanted to the Lord. This idea owed more to political pressure than theological insight. Today, a mindset survives which still refuses to separate kirk from nation and thereby undermines the missionary calling. The urgent need is to recognize that God made a covenant with Israel alone, and to think in terms of a second Israel was to misunderstand the development of church history. Today's Kirk must see herself not as the representative of the Christian faith of the Scottish people . . . to bring the ordinances of religion to the people in every parish of Scotland, but as the representative of Christ with an apostolic mandate for evangelism.

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