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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- I AT AN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS
- II AT A UNIVERSITY COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS
- III IN EMMANUEL COLLEGE CHAPEL
- IV AT THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP WESTCOTT
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
IV - AT THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP WESTCOTT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- I AT AN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS
- II AT A UNIVERSITY COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS
- III IN EMMANUEL COLLEGE CHAPEL
- IV AT THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP WESTCOTT
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Summary
EPHESIANS iv. 12, 13
For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ; till we all attain unto the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.
These words are spoken to us out of the past, a past which is in one sense becoming ever more remote. Already the nineteenth of the centuries which are reckoned from the coming of Christ our Lord is drawing perceptibly near to its end. The long interval which actually separates us from the Apostolic age grows unremittingly longer; while the sense of distance gains steadily in force with the knowledge that the human race, within and without Christendom, is setting forth on new and untrodden ways.
Yet this remoteness of time and of circumstance is swallowed up in a greater nearness. It is hardly too bold to say that through all these centuries no generation of Christians has had the Apostolic writings so nigh to them as our own. That instinctive turning to the primary deposit of Christian truth, which has often been noticed as an accompaniment of times of religious convulsion and perplexity, could hardly fail to be called forth to an unwonted degree by these later days. Other influences have been at work in the same direction with perhaps equal power. The study of the New Testament by professed students has been pursued for many years with increased carefulness, circumspection, and regard for evidence.
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- The Christian EcclesiaA Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and Four Sermons, pp. 278 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1897