Radical Church & Theology The Lost Practice of Church Discipline (Excommunication) Radical Resurgence
Radical Church & Theology BUILDINGS, CLERGY & MONEY: Part 3 of 3 Radical Resurgence How The Institutional Church Affects The Clergy We have now seen what, in organic nature, churches show themselves to be. Let us now look at some of the effects of…
Radical Church & Theology BUILDINGS, THE CLERGY & MONEY: Part 2 of 3 Radical Resurgence Ensuring Conformity Churches are possessed of instruments of destruction as well as habits of appropriation. Conformity can be imposed by means of excommunication and interdict, in their varying degrees. It…
Radical Church & Theology BUILDINGS, THE CLERGY & MONEY: Part 1 of 3 Radical Resurgence A Sociological Examination of the Traditional Elements of Religion Religion comes first as a family or clan or personal endeavor to win the services of supernatural force in situations not…
Radical Church & Theology The Lord’s Supper: A Study of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Radical Resurgence In the New Testament we should be struck by the utter simplicity that characterized life in the early churches. We are given a broad picture of church life, but many…
Radical Church & Theology The Coming Ecclesiastical Mass Extinction Radical Resurgence The asteroid has struck, the sky is darkening, and the mainstream churches and any evangelical megachurch you care to name are the dinosaurs. The asteroid is late capitalism and it…
Radical Church & Theology Are We Eating with the Right People? Radical Resurgence “When I wrote in my letter to you not to associate with people living immoral lives, I was not meaning to include all the people in the world who are…
Radical Church & Theology “That You All Agree” (1 Cor.1:10): Discernment, Dialogue & Decision-Making in the Church: Part II Radical Resurgence Decision-making. It cannot be without significance that in both cases where Jesus used the term “church” (ekklesia), the concept of “binding/loosing” was connected to it (Matt.16:18; 18:17). John Yoder summarises…
Radical Church & Theology “That You All Agree” (1 Cor.1:10): Discernment, Dialogue & Decision-Making in the Church: Part I Radical Resurgence Decision Making. One of the most basic elements in the fabric of church life is decision-making. Every church makes decisions (even not making a certain decision in itself still constitutes…
Radical Church & Theology The Neo-Reformed vs. The Neo-Anabaptists Radical Resurgence The following excerpt comes from David Fitch’s blog. You can read the entire post at the link at the bottom. Recently (in private e-mails) I have been getting some heat…
Radical Church & Theology The Anabaptists: The Forgotten Legacy – Part V Radical Resurgence Today I come to my final essay in our series on Anabaptism. A question may legitimately be asked by those who have had the patience to complete the reading of…