Wounds that heal
Subtitle: the importance of church discipline within Balthasar Hubmaier's theology
By: Simon Victor Goncharenko
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781610976046
Subjects: Church discipline; Doctrines; Anabaptists
Description: Is church discipline really necessary? One sixteenth-century Anabaptist reformer certainly thought so. A contemporary of Luther and Zwingli, Balthasar Hubmaier believed that church discipline was so important that he included the doctrine in every major area of his theology. Not only did church discipline appear in his doctrine of humanity, salvation, and the church, as a theoretical construct, but he also included practical instructions regarding its implementation in the life of the church. In this book, Goncharenko examines Hubmaier's teaching on discipline and considers its relevance to the church today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-142) and index.
Table of contents: title: The contextual milieu of Balthasar Hubmaier and his theology; title: Church discipline and anthropology; title: Church discipline and soteriology; title: Church discipline and ecclesiology; title: Conclusion.