The Church-kingdom: Lectures on Congregationalism Delivered on the Southworth Foundation in the Andover Theological Seminary, 1882-86

Congregational Sunday School and Pub. Society, 1887 - 386 頁

1 The scope of these Lectures is the Church of God	1

Limited to outward forms instead of the inner life 3 Polity largely fashions doctrines	2

Forms in which the Church has appeared	3

Christendom divided over the visibility of the Church 6 Definition of the Church of God	5

THE PATRIARCHAL DISPENSATION 7 Origin of society in the family	6

The Church continued to the Exodus	7

11 The simple form of the Patriarchal dispensation	8

12 This form not unifying	9

Should all cases be treated alike?	167

86 Explanation of terms	168

Definition of a local church	170

How should the church conduct the case?	173

Ruling elders	181

Confusion through various standards of belief	185

The church treasurer	189

The nature of Christion worship	195

14 Little separation between saints and sinners	10

THE CEREMONIAL DISPENSATION 15 Developed out of the preceding dispensation through a family covenant	11

This covenant did not rigidly separate between the good and the bad	12

The priesthood national and exclusive	13

The creed of this dispensation	14

It honored the family	15

Origin of synagogues in the inadequacy of this dispensation for an ecumenical religion	16

The kingdom of heaven defined	24

The Kingdom of Heaven in Manifestation	30

Fellowship unites these churches in associations	38

The transition rejected and retained much of the old dispensa	40

Theories reduced each to its constitutive principle and	45

The Papal Theory stated	51

This Theory older than the Papal	56

Different Episcopal Churches	62

LECTURE IV	70

76 This Theory embraces all Independents or Congregationalists	76

THE PRESBYTERIAN THEORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH	77

Each Theory determines the activities of its adherents	93

Recapitulation of the chief points reached	109

Their general relations indicate their independence	116

The churches not subject to an Episcopate	123

The independence of the primitive churches conceded	126

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH	131

The Christian ministry not a priesthood	132

THE TEMPORARY MINISTRY OF THE WORD	138

The form of worship should meet both the nature and ends	145

The qualifications of the Permanent Ministry	147

The ministerial standing of the ordained Meaning of	154

This ministerial standing protects and completes our polity	163

Variety in the worship of the primitive churches	198

Why may not councils yield to associations of churches	202

THE CHURCH SACRAMENTS	205

The subjects of baptism	211

LECTURE IX	229

dence?	251

Who may vote in church matters?	257

LECTURE X	264

194 Description of the system of councils	272

What is the force of usage in Congregationalism?	279

May not installation give place to recognition?	290

Origin of church associations	296

212 Relief from injustice in a mutual council	304

71	306

LECTURE XI	312

The claimed proof of this system	313

Obstacles to be overcome in reaching the normal method	319

Their true relation lost in the union of Church and State	325

Full return in America to the primitive relation	327

COMITY AMONG CHURCHES	337

LECTURE XII	343

The people the best custodians of faith	350

245 The force of objections	355

Objection from centralization in unity	363

The edifice too large for the foundation it is said The con	370

This Theory the oldest in principle but the latest in full	371

The Theory stated	377

Independent churches bound in the closest fellowship	379

89 Materials of the Patriarchal Church	383

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書名	The Church-kingdom: Lectures on Congregationalism Delivered on the Southworth Foundation in the Andover Theological Seminary, 1882-86
作者	Abel Hastings Ross
出版者	Congregational Sunday School and Pub. Society, 1887
來源：	哥倫比亞大學
已數位化	2009年3月10日
頁數	386 頁

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