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Title The Lord's Supper : believers church perspectives / edited by Dale R. Stoffer
Published Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Contents The Lord's supper in church history : the early church through the medieval period / Everett Ferguson -- Contrasting views of the Lord's supper in the Reformation of the sixteenth century / William R. Estep Jr. -- Believers church perspectives on the Lord's supper / Donald F. Durnbaugh -- "Making a meal of it" : the Lord's supper in its first-century social setting / Ben Witherington III -- Ecclesiology and the Lord's supper : the memorial meal of a peaceable community / Merle D. Strege -- Eschatology and the Lord's supper : hope for the triumph of God's reign / Robert G. Clouse -- Making the Lord's supper meaningful / Marlin Jeschke -- Brethren heritage of the Lord's supper : introduction / Dale R. Stoffer -- The agape in the Brethren tradition / Jeff Bach -- Footwashing within the context of the Lord's supper / John Christopher Thomas -- Brethren heritage of the Lord's supper : eucharist / Dale R. Stoffer
The Lord's supper as viewed and practiced by the Christian Churches, Churches of Christ, and the Disciples of Christ / John Mills -- A Quaker interpretation of the Lord's supper / T. Canby Jones -- Seventh-Day Adventists and the Lord's supper / Peter M. van Bemmelen -- The Lord's supper in the Free Methodist tradition / Howard A. Snyder -- The Lord's supper : the perspective of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Thomas L. McCray -- A Moravian perspective on holy communion / Kevin C. Frack -- Sacrament, ordinance, or both? : Baptist understandings of the Lord's supper / William H. Brackney -- Toward an Anabaptist theology of the Lord's supper / John D. Rempel -- Social implications of the Lord's supper in the early church / Reta Halteman Finger -- Proposed theses for a believers church theology of the Lord's supper / Thomas Finger -- The Lord's supper in the Mennonite Brethren Church / David Ewert -- Reflections on the conference / Timothy George
The Lord's supper in ecumenical dialogue / Jeffrey Gros -- A Baptist response / William H. Brackney -- Ovservations from the Orthodox perspective / Vladimir Berzonsky -- Report of the findings committee
Notes Papers from the Eleventh Believers Church Conference held at Ashland Theological Seminary, June 1994
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-332)
Notes English
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Subject Lord's Supper -- Congresses
Anabaptists -- Doctrines -- Congresses
Free churches -- Doctrines -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
Anabaptists -- Doctrines
Free churches -- Doctrines
Lord's Supper
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Stoffer, Dale R. (Dale Rupert), 1950-
Conference on the Concept of the Believers' Church (11th : 1994 : Ashland Theological Seminary)
ISBN 0585262969
9780585262963