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Product Identifiers
PublisherAuthor Solutions, LLC
ISBN-101512750514
ISBN-139781512750515
eBay Product ID (ePID)248599527
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TopicChristian Life / Social Issues
Publication Year2016
Book TitleStrategies in Church Discipline from 1 Corinthians : a Chinese Perspective
Number of Pages294 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreReligion
AuthorTimothy Kh Chong
FormatHardcover
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Item Length0.4 in
Item Width0.2 in
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SynopsisThis book seeks to recover the New Testament ideal of church discipline and to construct a holistic model for the Church in Asia. The Church has wrestled with the issue of discipline ever since her inception. Many of Paul's letters addressed the problems that had arisen in the communities that he had established. The thrust of church discipline in the New Testament was the formation of Christian character through the Word of God worked out in the process of discipleship through teaching, edification, admonition as well as banishing serious sin from the community. The ideal of church discipline in the New Testament is both Preventive Discipline and Punitive Discipline. As the Church became more institutionalized, there was a paradigm shift in the process of discipline. The New Testament ideal of discipline as a character formation was shifted to regulatory ordinances. This led to the development of a strict and regimented Christianity. Since then, church discipline had taken on a penitential and punitive direction. The book seeks to study Paul's management of the disciplinary problems in 1 Corinthians and then to construct a holistic model of church discipline for an Asian context., This book seeks to recover the New Testament ideal of church discipline and to construct a holistic model for the Church in Asia. The Church has wrestled with the issue of discipline ever since her inception. Many of Paul's letters addressed the problems that had arisen in the communities that he had established. The thrust of church discipline in the New Testament was the formation of Christian character through the Word of God worked out in the process of discipleship through teaching, edification, admonition as well as banishing serious sin from the community. The ideal of church discipline in the New Testament is both Preventive Discipline and Punitive Discipline. As the Church became more institutionalized, there was a paradigm shift in the process of discipline. The New Testament ideal of discipline as a character formation was shifted to regulatory ordinances. This led to the development of a strict and regimented Christianity. Since then, church discipline had taken on a penitential and punitive direction. The book seeks to study Paul's management of the disciplinary problems in 1 Corinthians and then to construct a holistic model of church discipline for an Asian context