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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Page 11
... live without vision ; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating in so many strange forms , the record of the visionaries " ( pp . 590-591 ) . Those Christians who are comfortable in their institutional churches will ...
... live without vision ; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating in so many strange forms , the record of the visionaries " ( pp . 590-591 ) . Those Christians who are comfortable in their institutional churches will ...
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... lives in community , unless perhaps they are vagrants or recluses . This has colored the Christian interpretation of the word , for being " in community " has meant anything from in- ner - city social work to running the parish rummage ...
... lives in community , unless perhaps they are vagrants or recluses . This has colored the Christian interpretation of the word , for being " in community " has meant anything from in- ner - city social work to running the parish rummage ...
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... live a life of love in the Holy Spirit . Thus many a group was branded Man- ichaean , either in its day or retrospectively . Only the dis- covery of new source material in later years has proven the charge to be false , or at least open ...
... live a life of love in the Holy Spirit . Thus many a group was branded Man- ichaean , either in its day or retrospectively . Only the dis- covery of new source material in later years has proven the charge to be false , or at least open ...
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... lives on earth the communal , devoted life of Paradise . This is the path which this study will attempt to trace ... live in harmony . Being only a concept and not a reality , suggestions varied as to how it ought to be run , but ...
... lives on earth the communal , devoted life of Paradise . This is the path which this study will attempt to trace ... live in harmony . Being only a concept and not a reality , suggestions varied as to how it ought to be run , but ...
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... live in unpopulated places , where they set up community villages , with individual dwellings grouped around a communal build- ing . All members renounced their possessions at the time of joining and gave themselves to a contemplative ...
... live in unpopulated places , where they set up community villages , with individual dwellings grouped around a communal build- ing . All members renounced their possessions at the time of joining and gave themselves to a contemplative ...
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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