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Anabaptist
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Throughout history, Christians have faced the persistent temptation of confusing the language we use to talk about God with the essence of Christian faith. This stubborn human tendency to turn doctrine into an idol - to confuse a human creation with the truth itself - can easily lead people to wield doctrinal claims as a weapon against minority or dissenting perspectives. Thus, anyone who does not line up with a certain formulation of Christian faith is not only wrong, but also a heretic and the
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― Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice
― Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice
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In the name of rejecting ecclesiastical authority as "hierarchy" or "tradition" as theological manipulation and bondage, we have instead created a hermeneutic of suspicion and have invested every biblically informed conscience (instead of a pope) to speak ex cathedra. It is a Pyrrhic victory for Free church Protestantism when the net effect of its teaching results in the replacing of the tyranny of the magisterium with the tyranny of individualism.
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― Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
― Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
