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The author shows that the New Testament pattern of unity is two-fold. It is a pattern of complementarity, not of uniformity. One emphasises the institutional, traditional and particular: the other the persona, dynamic and universal. Yet the two are one. What is the nature of Christian unity? Is it Sacramental, Organic, Federal, Spiritual. These are questions that demand careful examination when the different Christian traditions are drawing closer to one another in a common desire to heal the divisions which hinder the witness of the Church to the world. In any attempt to deal with these questions full weight must be given to the evidence of the New Testament itself. What kind of unity does it reveal? The author sees a two-fold pattern of unity in the New Testament. One strand in its witness to Christ, to the Apostles, and to the Church emphasises the institutional, traditional and particular; the other the persona, dynamic and universal. Yet the two strands are actually one. Their unity is more comprehensive, more creative, than any undifferentiated unity could be. To establish this thesis and to suggest some of its implications is the purpose of Leuba's stimulating book.

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Author:   Jean-Louis Leuba ,  Harold Knight
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.221kg
ISBN:  

9780227172131

ISBN 10:   0227172132
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   23 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: The Christ Chapter 1. Christological Dualism 1. The Two Categories of Titles of Jesus: Institutional and Spiritual 2. Theology of Christological Dualism Chapter 2. The Unity of the Christ 1. The Christ is the Lord 2. The Lord is the Christ Part Two: The Apostles Chapter 1. Apostolic Dualism 1. The Institutional Apostolate of the Twelve and the Spiritual Apostolate of Paul 2. Theology of Apostolic Dualism Chapter 2. The Unity of the Apostles 1. The Union of the Twelve with Paul 2. The Union of Paul with the Twelve Part Three: The Church Chapter 1. Ecclesiastical Dualism 1. The Institutional Church of Jewish Christianity and the Spiritual Church of Gentile Christianity 2. The Theological Basis of Ecclesiastical Dualism Chapter 2. The Unity of the Church 1. The Union of the Jewish Christian with the Gentile Christian Church 2. The Union of the Gentile Christian with the Jewish Christian Church Conclusion 1. Institution and Event According to the New Testament 2. The Perpetual Validity of the Fundamental New Testament Dualism Notes

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Dr Leuba has done his work with painstaking attention to Scriptural detail, and has developed his interpretation of the evidence with much skill and insight. There are many good points made in the course of the exposition. Alan M. Stibbs, The Churchman 68/1 Dr Leuba begins with the New Testament, and finds in it dogmatic implications of ecumenical importance. . . . [He] discovers running through every level of the New Testament theology two strands, that of the 'institution' and the 'event', two modes of God's working, idfferent, but united in his divine action. . . . The institution, says Leuba, is like a row of noughts, the event like the preceding figure 1 which makes them into a millio: divine action needs a historical embodiment, but historical institutions are nothing without the breadth of the Spirit. William Nicholls in Theology 57/409

Author Information

Jean-Louis Leuba (1912-2005) was Professor of Theology at the University of Neuchatel. He was Pastor of the French Reformed Church in Basel and editor of the theological and ecclesiastical review Verbum Caro.

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