Pilgrims of a Common Life: Christian Community of Goods Through the CenturiesMultiply Publications, 1987 - 207 pages A thorough but readable historical review of Christian Community of goods through the centuries. Essential reading for all those interested in the practice of Christian community both in the past and in the present. |
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... called Jesus movement . Many others were characterized as countercultural and identified with the hippie generation . Journalistic estimates reached the ten thou- sand mark for urban and rural communes in the USA alone . In fact , no ...
... called Jesus movement . Many others were characterized as countercultural and identified with the hippie generation . Journalistic estimates reached the ten thou- sand mark for urban and rural communes in the USA alone . In fact , no ...
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... called themselves Christian but which held heterodox , or even heretical , beliefs : Oneida , the Shakers , the early Mormons ? I found in the end that they had to be omitted , simply because the sidetrack could prove endless . After ...
... called themselves Christian but which held heterodox , or even heretical , beliefs : Oneida , the Shakers , the early Mormons ? I found in the end that they had to be omitted , simply because the sidetrack could prove endless . After ...
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... called " a third race , " " a peculiar people " —a people who had been told by their Lord that they were to be in the world but not of it.1 John strongly condemned the world ( kosmos ) as being under the power of Satan . It was not to ...
... called " a third race , " " a peculiar people " —a people who had been told by their Lord that they were to be in the world but not of it.1 John strongly condemned the world ( kosmos ) as being under the power of Satan . It was not to ...
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... called " the seed of survival , " or what E. H. Broadbent has more recently termed " the pilgrim church . " Unlike its established stepmother , this church knows that it is not of this present world and its base spirit . It is rather a ...
... called " the seed of survival , " or what E. H. Broadbent has more recently termed " the pilgrim church . " Unlike its established stepmother , this church knows that it is not of this present world and its base spirit . It is rather a ...
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... called the Essenes . Many of these chose to live communally , sharing goods and possessions , in the belief that such righteousness could in part atone for the degeneracy of Israel . In an Essene settlement , life centered around a ...
... called the Essenes . Many of these chose to live communally , sharing goods and possessions , in the belief that such righteousness could in part atone for the degeneracy of Israel . In an Essene settlement , life centered around a ...
Contents
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The Late Middle Ages | 88 |
The Reformation | 102 |
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 118 |
The Nineteenth Century | 137 |
The Twentieth Century | 152 |
The Characteristics | 165 |
Appendix | 177 |
Bibliography | 191 |
Scripture Index | 199 |
The Author 207 | |
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