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Inspiration and Institution in Christian History: Volume 57 (Studies in Church History) by Charlotte Methuen, Alec Ryrie, Andrew Spicer, Summer Meeting Staff Ecclesiastical History Society, Winter Meeting Staff Ecclesiastical History Society is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The theme of Studies in Church History 57 is Inspiration and Institution in Christian History. A Christian church is an entity that claims, in some sense, to be a divinely inspired institution: but this is a paradox. Since the apostolic age, Christian churches have seen a constant dialectic between inspiration and institution: how the ungoverned spontaneity of Spirit-led religion negotiates its way through laws, structures and communities. If institutional frameworks are absent or insufficient, new, creative and dynamic expressions of Christianity can disappear or collapse into disorder almost as quickly as they have flared up. If those frameworks are excessively rigid or punitive, they can quench the spirit of any new movements. This volume brings together articles by seventeen scholars of different aspects of Christianity's history ... to explore the interplay between inspirational movements and institutional structures throughout Christianity's history. They ask how the paradox of inspiration and institution has been negotiated from the ancient world to the modern era, tracing how different Christian movements have striven to hold these two vital aspects of their faith together,

Author

Charlotte Methuen, Alec Ryrie, Andrew Spicer, Summer Meeting Staff Ecclesiastical History Society, Winter Meeting Staff Ecclesiastical History Society

Publisher

Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Cambridge University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781316514801