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The Misunderstanding of the Church

The Misunderstanding of the Church

Brunner, Emil

Hardcover

Series: Emil Brunner Library

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0718891341
ISBN13: 9780718891343
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Sep 1 2002
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An instructive an insightful analysis of what is wrong with the modern churches, when compared with the early, Spirit-filled fellowship of the New Testament.

Brunner sees St Paul's Epistle to the Romans as 'the chapter of destiny of the Christian Church'. Here, in Luther's words, is the 'purest gospel' upon which the very existence of the Christian faith depends and from which it draws its life.

Concentrated, decisive and instructive, nothing within the New Testament is more closely argued both theological and personal. Out of his years of scholarly wisdom Brunner meditates on the great Question: What is wrong with the Churches? Brunner finds an answer in the contrast between the virile Spirit-filled fellowship of the New Testament and the institutions which are now called 'churches'. He writes in his preface: The title of the book, The Misunderstanding of the Church, is equivocal. Is it a question of a misunderstanding of which the Church is guilty, or of a misunderstanding of which it is the victim? Or is it that the Church itself, as such, is perhaps the product of a misunderstanding? The author is not responsible for this ambiguity; it is intrinsic in the theme itself.

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