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The Founding of the Church

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Ambrose W. Vernon
Affiliation:
Brookline, Massachusetts

Extract

The church has come to have an enduring place not only in history but in thought. At least since the writing of The City of God it has decided some of the most vital questions confronting us because of a peculiar sanctity attached to it. It is not therefore out of place to demand from time to time that it show us its credentials. The present essay is an attempt to discover if there is anything peculiarly sacred about the manner of its founding that would justify us in ascribing unique spiritual authority to it.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1917

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References

1 Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte, p. 37. Das Altertum, bearbeitet von Erwin Preuschen.