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September 04 2008 By virtueonline Jews and Israel, for Christians - Gerald R. McDermott

Korn shows that Jews have always thought of salvation as corporate, not individual, for Torah's famous call to God's people to be holy in Leviticus 19 is in the plural imperative. Since holiness is to be social, primarily expressed in relations among human beings and especially in a holy society, a land is needed to ensure the freedom to create that society. This is why "the Land is essential to the divine biblical mission" (8).

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September 02 2008 By virtueonline John Henry Cardinal Newman: The Anglican Theologian who Swam the Tiber

I know no other religion [than what is founded on dogma]; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. As well can there be filial love without the fact of a father, as devotion without the fact of a Supreme Being.

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August 28 2008 By virtueonline Cracked: the Wesley code

The passages, previously hidden by a heavily abbreviated code, reveal that Charles strongly disapproved of John's marriage and disagreed with his brother over the question of a breach with the Church of England, into which both brothers had been ordained.

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August 21 2008 By virtueonline LAMBETH CONFERENCE: Summary Analysis of Lambeth Conference 2008

3) Other than the bishops, there were three main groups contributing to the Lambeth Conference.

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August 20 2008 By virtueonline THE ROAD TO REALIGNMENT

CRISIS COMES TO A HEAD: ROBINSON'S ELECTION & PRIMATES' RESPONSE (June 2003-November 2003)

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August 17 2008 By virtueonline Jonathan Edwards on Justification by Faith-More Protestant or Catholic?

For Tryon Edwards and my friend, Edwards could not have supported infusion because Edwards was an astute theologian in the Reformation tradition, which has tended to regard justification and infusion as mutually exclusive. Hence Edwards must also have regarded them as mutually exclusive.

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August 06 2008 By virtueonline Judgment Begins at the Household of God - Robert J. Sanders

The time has come for the judgment to begin at the household of God; and if what we know now is only the beginning, what will it be when it comes down to those who refuse to believe God's Good News? (I Peter 4:17)

I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more. (John 15:1-2)

Let us now go back about two centuries.

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August 03 2008 By virtueonline Maintaining Freedom of Conscience, Avoiding Schism, and Achieving Reconciliation

While in no way seeking to takes sides, or even to venture a personal opinion on the situation, I feel it may be of an encouragement to my Anglican brethren to know that there is an historical precedent for such a course of action, and that it was crowned with success. It may be a surprise that this precedent stems from the most persecuted sector of the 17th Century Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters, but the parallels are clear and significant.

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August 03 2008 By virtueonline LAMBETH: The Bible and Tomorrow's World - Tom Wright

Let me draw your attention to a book of mine which is foundational for what I'm going to say. Scripture and the Authority of God grew directly out of my work on both the Lambeth Commission and the International Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission.

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August 02 2008 By virtueonline Cardinal Kasper: "The Apostolicity of Faith"

Earlier in his address, the Cardinal had pointed to the Lord's "expressed will that his disciples be one, just as He is one with the Father; and that this unity was directly linked to Christ's mission, the Church's mission, to the world: may they be one so that the world may believe". In this context - although the Cardinal did not say so in so many words - to recede from the goal of full communion is to recede not simply from some desideratum, but from the Lord's will for His Church.

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