Willett Herbert Dean Disciples Divinity (5 results)

Hardcover. xxxviii, 305 p.; 28 il., 1 colored map; 19.5 cm. (Constructive Bible studies) (Galbraith, Disciples and American culture 5207) Good but heavily spotted orig. red cloth.

Hardcover. 337, [16] p.; 19.5 cm. [First printed 1899, with bibliography added in 1901] (Galbraith, Disciples and American culture 5208) Good orig.green cloth. Pages toned, profuse but neat ink scoring.

Hardcover. [7], 337 p.; 21.5 cm. (Galbraith and Day, Disciples and American culture 5195) Fair orig. cloth, spine heavily chafed. Joints and covers good.

Hardcover. [7], 422 p.; cm. (Galbraith and Day, Disciples and American culture 5198) `There was no authentic connection of any class of the citizenship of Judah with the past. The repeated destruction of Jerusalem and its archives not only explains the loss of those many biographical and historical documents cited so frequently and so tantalizingly in the Old Testament, but discounts completely the supposition that there could have been preserved the genealogies of the priesthood, of the tribe of Levi, or in fact of any other tribe. Yet these fictions persisted, and it is not surprising that claims were made by talmudic writers, in the spirit of the Chronicler, that every Jew, much more every priest, could trace his line back to this tribal ancestor. It is asserted in the Talmud that thre were eighteen camel-loads of exposition of one of the genealogical lists in Chrinicles. But Josephus, who claimed from himself a priestly descent, writes that at the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus all the priestly records were consumed.' (p. 7 f.) Good edgeworn orig. blue cloth, spine heavily abraded.

Hardcover. 139 p.; 19 cm. (Galbraith and Day, Disciples and American culture 5202) `The Disciples of Christ are old enough as a religious body to understand something of their place in the programme of American Christianity, as judged by their past career and their present standing; and no moment is more favorable for taking inventory of their position and promise than this hour, in which the two centuries meet. Are the people who comprise the membership of this communion content with the record already made? If they are, is there anything more to be sought for the future? If not content, how shall their purposes be realized?' (p. 5) -- `The ultimate form of church organization will probably be congregational, not merely because the New Testament churches were congregational, though this was the fact, nor indeed because there is any defined scheme of church organization in the New Testament which requires this particular form, but because the plans which the Apostles used in the first century seem better suited to the needs of the entire bortherhood of believers.' (p. 124) -- `The church of the future will include a far greater variety of organization, worship and doctrine than has ever yet been seen. No plan of Christian union can be conceived that does not admit these varieties, and recognize in all of them helpufl and necessary expressions of that Christian liberty which is perfectly consistent with loyalty to Christ.' (p. 125) VG sl. spotted orig. green cloth, gilt. Light penc. in margins.