Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0836191609
ISBN 13
9780836191608
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
88
Description
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the original practices has often been covered by centuries of ritual and interpretation.John Howard Yoder, in his inimitably direct and discerning style, uncovers the original meaning of the five practices and shows why the recovery of these practices is so important for the social, economic, and political witness of the church today. - from Amzon
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