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The Catholic Church : Nature, Reality and Mission

2015
C. R. Ryan
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The Nature of Church Camp

2023
The Nature of Church Camp: An Environmental History of Outdoor Ministry, 1945–1980 by Christopher W. Anderson explores the mid-twentieth-century history of religious camps and retreat centers to provide new insights into the history of environmentalism in the United States.
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Why the Focus of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse has Largely Remained on the Catholic Church amongst Other Non-Catholic Christian Denominations and Religions

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2019
The current study considers reasons for the consistent focus of academic research and mainstream media on clerical child sexual abuse (cCSA) largely within the Roman Catholic Church, seeming to ignore cCSA in other Christian denominations and religions ...
Faisal Rashid, I. Barron
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The Nature of the Church

Harvard Theological Review, 1931
The perennial debate as to the nature of the church must always seem to those who are more interested in ideas than in institutions one of the irrelevancies with which theology is so often charged. It is not the church that matters, but religion.
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Is Church Development ‘Natural’?

Ecclesiology, 2014
The aim of this article is to give a theologically and scientifically based answer to the question whether church development is ‘natural’ in the sense that Christian A. Schwarz describes in his book Natural Church Development. Giving a reasonable answer to this question requires, first of all, that an analysis and assessment be done on how Schwarz’s ...
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Research Report: The Marks of the Fragile Rural Church

Rural Theology, 2019
Building on previous research [Lawson, S. A. (2018). Identifying stressors among rural Church of England clergy with responsibility for three or more churchesIdentifying stressors amongst Church of England clergy with responsibility for three or more ...
S. Anne Lawson
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THE CHURCH: GOD'S GIFT TO THE WORLD ‐ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH*

International Review of Mission, 2001
ALAN D. FALCONER (**) Impulses for the study on "The Nature and Purpose of the Church" In the responses of the churches to the Faith and Order study Baptism, Eucharist, Ministry (BEM), many church commissions detected that there had been an implicit ecclesiology, and called for a more explicit and focused study on the church.
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The Newer Protestantism on the Nature of the Church

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THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES‘ TEXT ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH

International Review of Mission, 2001
NEVILLE CALLAM [*] The character of the text on The Nature and Purpose of the Church [1] as a stage in the development of a "convergence instrument" must be borne in mind when one decides to probe any aspect of that document. The text is not presented as the final outcome of a process.
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The Nature of the Church in the Thought of John Knox

Scottish Journal of Theology, 1984
The leaders of the Protestant Reformation not only intended a revival of personal piety; they aimed as well to reshape the corporate forms of religion. They did not convert individuals to the Protestant faith only to abandon them to a state of religious detachment.
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