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Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future - Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Hardcover)
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Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future - Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Hardcover)
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Baptists tend to be the "problem children" of the ecumenical
movement. The Baptist obsession to realize a true church birthed a
tradition of separation. While Baptists' misgivings about ecumenism
may stem from this fissiparous genealogy, it is equally true that
the modern ecumenical movement itself increasingly lacks consensus
about the pathway to a visible Christian unity. In Baptist Identity
and the Ecumenical Future , Steven R. Harmon explores the
relationship of the Baptist calling to be a pilgrim community and
the ecumenical movement. Harmon argues that neither vision can be
fulfilled apart from a mutually receptive ecumenical engagement. As
Harmon shows, Baptist communities and the churches from which they
are separated need one another. Chief among the gifts Baptists have
to offer the rest of the church are their pilgrim aversion to
overly realized eschatologies of the church and their radical
commitment to discerning the rule of Christ by means of the
Scriptures. Baptists, in turn, must be willing to receive from
other churches neglected aspects of the radical catholicity from
which the Bible is inseparable. Embedded in the Baptist vision and
its historical embodiment are surprising openings for ecumenical
convergence. Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future urges
Baptists and their dialogue partners to recognize and embrace these
ecumenically oriented facets of Baptist identity as indispensable
provisions for their shared pilgrimage toward the fullness of the
rule of Christ in their midst, which remains partial so long as
Christ's body remains divided.
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