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Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community before the Watching World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Binding and loosing, baptism, Eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting—these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community and some of them are still echoed in church practices today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the original practices has often been covered by centuries of ritual and interpretation. John Howard Yoder...

Stated very formally, the pattern we shall discover is that the will of God for human socialness as a whole is prefigured by the shape to which the Body of Christ is called. Church and world are not two compartments under separate legislation or two institutions with contradictory assignments, but two levels of the pertinence of the same Lordship. The people of God is called to be today what the world is called to be ultimately. First, then, we shall review, in an intentionally simple way,3 how the
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