Comments on: Unity and Doctrine http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/10/unity-and-doctrine/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Judith Huang http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/10/unity-and-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-5506 Judith Huang Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:50:58 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=1941#comment-5506 I think where the conversation ends because of hatred and war and division within the church, Satan is laughing. We'd best do to restart the conversation and keep the tone respectful - that is probably the best way forward. And the Ichthus is a good start! I think where the conversation ends because of hatred and war and division within the church, Satan is laughing.

We’d best do to restart the conversation and keep the tone respectful – that is probably the best way forward.

And the Ichthus is a good start!

]]> By: Samir http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/10/unity-and-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Samir Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:27:16 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=1941#comment-191 Courtesy of ID: There has never been a time when the church was one. The centralizing of the church around Rome and the papacy was a historical move emerging between the third and fifth centuries in an already divided and contested Christendom. “Each one of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Cephas,’ or ‘I belong to Christ,’” as Paul attests in one of his early epistles (1 Cor. 1:12). There has never been a Christendom in terms of a universal kingdom of Christ. While the Roman medieval church was extending both its powers and territorial domain from the eleventh century to the sixteenth, it became increasingly aware of its own smallness. . . . Even before the Reformation’s splintering, Christendom was an ideology only partly realized and internally contested. The church, then, is always to come. It is a promise that forms the horizon within which the churches seek to be and become more fully the church. (p. 25-26) http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/2009/10/05/the-never-unity-of-the-church/ Courtesy of ID:

There has never been a time when the church was one. The centralizing of the church around Rome and the papacy was a historical move emerging between the third and fifth centuries in an already divided and contested Christendom. “Each one of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Cephas,’ or ‘I belong to Christ,’” as Paul attests in one of his early epistles (1 Cor. 1:12). There has never been a Christendom in terms of a universal kingdom of Christ. While the Roman medieval church was extending both its powers and territorial domain from the eleventh century to the sixteenth, it became increasingly aware of its own smallness. . . . Even before the Reformation’s splintering, Christendom was an ideology only partly realized and internally contested. The church, then, is always to come. It is a promise that forms the horizon within which the churches seek to be and become more fully the church. (p. 25-26)

http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/2009/10/05/the-never-unity-of-the-church/

]]> By: Nick Nowalk http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/10/unity-and-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Nick Nowalk Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:14:59 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=1941#comment-190 “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same [tuning] fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.” (A. W. Tozer, "The Pursuit of God", p. 97) “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same [tuning] fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become “unity” conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.” (A. W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God”, p. 97)

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