Apostolic Succession and the Problem of Unity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Edward McCrady

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331788056 ISBN 13: 9781331788058

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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His intention is not to undermine the existing order or organization of the Church, but to make a serious and earnest examination into what that order and organization are and what they rest upon. If the argument seems to antagonize the theories and doctrines of present-day writers, may it not be that these writers have themselves misconceived the Church, and with honest but mistaken intent misstated her position? The author's effort is not to assert or to establish a theory of his own making, but to discover the Church's practical doctrine, and then present it in its significant bearing upon the great question of Unity, which he rightly regards as the foremost ecclesiastical question of the day. That the Historic Episcopate is a practical necessity to stability in Church government has become his firm belief, which has grown out of his patient study of the history of the past. When the Roman Church replaced the Historic Episcopate with Papal sovereignty and sought to fix this strange doctrine upon the Catholic Church, disintegration resulted; and when the Protestant Churches discarded the Episcopate, segregation and confusion resulted as a natural consequence. The author believes that the Historic Episcopate is worthy, and is destined to become a basis of unity, not because it is a doctrine of necessity, but because it has proved its practical necessity to stable government.

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Excerpt from Apostolic Succession and the Problem of Unity His intention is not to undermine the existing order or organization of the Church, but to make a serious and earnest examination into what that order and organization are and what they rest upon. If the argument seems to antagonize the theories and doctrines of present-day writers, may it not be that these writers have themselves misconceived the Church, and with honest but mistaken intent misstated her position? The author's effort is not to assert or to establish a theory of his own making, but to discover the Church's practical doctrine, and then present it in its significant bearing upon the great question of Unity, which he rightly regards as the foremost ecclesiastical question of the day. That the Historic Episcopate is a practical necessity to stability in Church government has become his firm belief, which has grown out of his patient study of the history of the past. When the Roman Church replaced the Historic Episcopate with Papal sovereignty and sought to fix this strange doctrine upon the Catholic Church, disintegration resulted; and when the Protestant Churches discarded the Episcopate, segregation and confusion resulted as a natural consequence. The author believes that the Historic Episcopate is worthy, and is destined to become a basis of unity, not because it is a doctrine of necessity, but because it has proved its practical necessity to stable government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections suc

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331788056
• ISBN 13: 9781331788058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183