The United Church of the United States
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But here we are met by two grave objections. It is alleged that this historic episcopate has ever tended to hierarchy, as seen conspicuously in that Roman papacy and Anglican prelacy from which we have escaped only through grievous wars and persecutions. Undoubtedly such scruples would have had force in Europe some generations ago. Whatever good ends the abnormal sway of the Latin episcopate may have served providentially in the mediaeval civilization, its greater evils could only be cured by t...he Reformation. Such evils however, do not menace us now in this free land. Nor can we imagine a prelatic peerage among its free churches. A congestion of church power in bishops is about the last danger that we have to fear. The whole drift of our times is the other way, and with terrific momentum toward the wildest license in Church and State. We have to face the anarchy of the nineteenth century, not the hierarchy of the Middle 176 The Historic Episcopate.
Ages, Good Christian people, I sometimes fancy, can be frightened by the mere word hierarchy, and seem often to cherish an inherited dread of it, which rehgious demagogues may but too easily inflame in thoughtless moments.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But here we are met by two grave objections. It is alleged that this historic episcopate has ever tended to hierarchy, as seen conspicuously in that Roman papacy and Anglican prelacy from which we have escaped only through grievous wars and persecutions. Undoubtedly such scruples would have had force in Europe some generations ago. Whatever good ends the abnormal sway of the Latin episcopate may have served providentially in the mediaeval civilization, its greater evils could only be cured by t...he Reformation. Such evils however, do not menace us now in this free land. Nor can we imagine a prelatic peerage among its free churches. A congestion of church power in bishops is about the last danger that we have to fear. The whole drift of our times is the other way, and with terrific momentum toward the wildest license in Church and State. We have to face the anarchy of the nineteenth century, not the hierarchy of the Middle 176 The Historic Episcopate.
Ages, Good Christian people, I sometimes fancy, can be frightened by the mere word hierarchy, and seem often to cherish an inherited dread of it, which rehgious demagogues may but too easily inflame in thoughtless moments.
What to read after The United Church of the United States?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles W Charles Woodruff Shields to read onlineMoreLess
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