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Christian doctrine, McClendon tells us, is no laundry list of propositions to be believed, but is rather an essential practice of the church. Doctrines are those shared convictions which the church must teach and live out if it is to be the church. The author rejects the prevailing assumptions stemming from the rationalism of the Enlightenment, and redefines theology as a discipline within the...

cube) beneath a new heaven (the dome) where God reigned supreme. Thus the architect captured in space what the liturgy declared true of time: the future is present; this is the house of God, the gate of heaven (cf. Pevsner, 1957:37-40; Micks, 1970). The distinct numinous quality of Byzantine architecture is in no way inimical to baptist worship, which as we saw above (§1) depends on the awesome reality of God's presence. No healthy architecture can simply copy past achievement. What is required of today's
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