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Pagan Christianity - Viola Responds
E. Stanley Jones' Radical (and Relevant) Global Vision
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Renewing Smaller Congregations: The ABIDE Model
Revitalization Consultations Scheduled for Asbury, Edinburgh
E. Stanley Jones' Radical (and Relevant) Global Vision
From the Director
Renewing Smaller Congregations: The ABIDE Model
Revitalization Consultations Scheduled for Asbury, Edinburgh
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Fall 2008
Evangelicalism's Amazing Recovery of Early Christianity
Thirty years ago Robert Webber wrote about “evangelical amnesia”—the lack of a sense of history in U.S. evangelicalism and fundamentalism. Such forgetfulness is not confined to evangelicals, however; William Abraham in 1995 published Waking from Doctrinal Amnesia: The Healing Doctrine of the United Methodist Church (Abingdon Press). One of the most remarkable developments of the past three decades is a recovery of the sources and insights of early Christianity. This process continues and is now coming to full flower. Four examples: Ancient-Future Christianity Robert E.…