Apostolical Succession Considered, Or, the Constitution of a Christian Church, Its Powers and Ministry: With an Appendix of Recent Anglican Views on Apostolical Succession

Longmans, Green, 1912 - 156 Seiten

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SEC PAGE 1 Christianity designed to be a social Religion	1

Properties of a Community	4

Rights Divinely conferred on a Christian Community	6

Constitution of the Jewish Church	8

How the Disciples would understand the Commission given them	10

A Community may pardon offences against itself	12

Power of the Keys	14

Procedure of the Disciples in conformity to their Masters directions	15

The Articles the Symbol embodying the deliberate decisions of our Church	73

Pretended distinction between coordinate and subordinate Tradition	78

Alleged importance of human teaching	83

Use and abuse of human instruction	87

System of reserve	88

Unsound reasons brought in aid of sound ones	91

Difficulty of ascertaining unbroken succession	94

Increased danger of Schism	102

Christian Churches derived from Synagogues	18

Scanty records of what relates to Church Government and copious of moral and doctrinal instructions	22

Remarkable circumstance in the matters of detail which the Scriptures do record	24

Internal evidence of the Gospel resulting from the above views	29

Things enjoined things excluded and things left at large	31

Christianity a religion without Sacrifice Altar or Temple	32

The Christian Church universal has no Spiritual Head on Earth	36

Importance of points excluded	42

Churchordinances removed from a firm foundation and rested on a basis of sand	46

The English reformers chose the true foundation	48

Pretended Churchprinciples fatal to the Christian hopes and privileges even of their advocates	55

Appeal to the practice of the early Churches an argument inaccessible to the great mass of Christians	59

SEC PAGE 22 Pretended decisions of the Catholic Church	61

Appeals to supposed decisions etc of the Catholic Church as superfluous as they are unsound	68

Irregular formations of Christian Communities	104

Presumption in favour of the Church to which one actually	109

Apprehension of what is called unsettling mens minds	111

Supposed case neither an impossible one nor useless even if	113

Cases of a moral necessity for separation	115

Mistakes to be guarded against by Reformers when compelled	117

Erroneous views seductive to the feelings and imagination	121

Case of deposed Bishops and Presbyters	126

System of Traditionists incapable of being supported by clear	128

arguments	129

Fallacies resorted to on religious subjects	131

False views of what is faith	133

Principles of the Anglican Reformers	135

Appendix	139

Titel	Apostolical Succession Considered, Or, the Constitution of a Christian Church, Its Powers and Ministry: With an Appendix of Recent Anglican Views on Apostolical Succession
Autor/in	Richard Whately
Verlag	Longmans, Green, 1912
Original von	University of California
Digitalisiert	20. Juli 2010
Länge	156 Seiten

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