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Bible Christians
(134 words)
[German Version] The Bible Christians are a small denomination that emerged in 1815 from Wesleyan Methodism in the wake of William O'Bryan (1778–1868), a lay evangelist who refused to accept the discipline of preaching appointments in WesleyanMethodism. Their theology (Arminians: II) and organization remained Methodist in the Wesleyan (J. Wesley) sense. The Bi…
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Creator Spiritus
(356 words)
[German Version] designates the third person of the Holy Trinity in his capacity as “Creator Spirit.” In the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed the Holy Spirit (Spirit/Holy Spirit) is confessed as “sovereign, life- giving.” Traditional Christian theology sees an OT witness to the presence and operation of the Spirit at the beginning of creation (Gen 1:2; cf. Ps 33:6, “by the
breath of his mouth”), and in the renewal of “the face of the earth” (Ps 104:29–30) and of “the house of Israel” (Ezek 37:1–14). In the NT the Holy Spirit is the …
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Lima Declaration
(824 words)
[German Version] In 1982, following a 55-year period of reflection on these issues by the Faith and Order movement, the Commission for Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches completed the convergence paper
Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry in Lima (Peru). The definitive text was submitted to the churches with a request for “an official response at the highest appropriate level of authority.” The text was soon translated into at least 30 languages. The nearly 200 responses were analyzed and outlined in the booklet
Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry 1982–1990. Report on the Process and Responses (1992), which also contained comments and proposals for further action (World Council of Churches: III, 2). According to the Lima text, baptism “signifies and effects” participation in Christ's death and resurrection as well as the gift and receiving of the Holy Spirit, and thus “means” the washing away of sin, a new birth and renewal of life, incorporation into the Body of Christ, and anticipation of the coming of the kingdom of God (nos. 2–7…
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Faith and Order
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[German Version] Faith and Order is one of the principal streams contributing to the modern ecumenical movement. Springing from the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, it followed its own course until 1948, when it joined with Life and Work to form the World Council of Churches, where its constitutional function is “to call the churches to the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ, in order that the world may believe.” While practical cooperation for the purposes of evangelization may have been the most obvious motivation in the early years of the ecumenical movement, some of its leaders saw more deeply that the separation of churches was itself a counter-testimony to the gospel of reconciliation and even inflicted wounds on the very Body of Christ. One such visionary was Bishop C.H. Brent fr…
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Spirit/Holy Spirit
(8,121 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies and History of Philosophy The dogmatic definition of the Holy Spirit as a person within the one divine substance (Trinity/Doctrine of the Trinity) presupposes not only a particular philosophical context but also a religio-historical horizon. A formative influence on the conceptualization o…
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Worship
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[German Version]
I. Terminology The German word
Gottesdienst (“worship,” lit. “service of God”) is attested since the 13th/14th century as a German translation of Latin
cultus (Cult/Worship). It came into common use in the 16th century, especially in Luther’s works. Starting with an ethical understanding of the word, Luther himself used it as a t…
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