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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... later evidence of believers allowed to keep their possessions and give alms , they conclude with relief that community living finished with Jerusalem and was practiced nowhere else . Attempts to Define " Communal Sharing " The question ...
... later evidence of believers allowed to keep their possessions and give alms , they conclude with relief that community living finished with Jerusalem and was practiced nowhere else . Attempts to Define " Communal Sharing " The question ...
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... later years has proven the charge to be false , or at least open to dispute . Priscillian in the early Church and Henry of Lausanne in medieval times are just two examples of those whose reputation has , as it were , been cleared . Many ...
... later years has proven the charge to be false , or at least open to dispute . Priscillian in the early Church and Henry of Lausanne in medieval times are just two examples of those whose reputation has , as it were , been cleared . Many ...
Page 28
... later Christian commu- nities , there was no manual work . A covenant bound them to- gether and they had a period of waiting , similar to a novitiate , before any joined them . The early historian Philo of Alexan- dria , who knew the ...
... later Christian commu- nities , there was no manual work . A covenant bound them to- gether and they had a period of waiting , similar to a novitiate , before any joined them . The early historian Philo of Alexan- dria , who knew the ...
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... brotherly life together . As such , Qumran presents a good parallel to many early Christian monastic communities three centuries later . The Scriptural Position , Part I : The Old Covenant 30 Pilgrims of a Common Life.
... brotherly life together . As such , Qumran presents a good parallel to many early Christian monastic communities three centuries later . The Scriptural Position , Part I : The Old Covenant 30 Pilgrims of a Common Life.
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... later ( v . 11 ) comes the apparently contradictory statement that " the poor will never cease out of the land . " Yet what follows is an exhortation to " open wide your hand to your brother , to the needy and to the poor . " In the ...
... later ( v . 11 ) comes the apparently contradictory statement that " the poor will never cease out of the land . " Yet what follows is an exhortation to " open wide your hand to your brother , to the needy and to the poor . " In the ...
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 | |
Common terms and phrases
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