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In The Community of the Word editors Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church’s moral character and missional witness.

food.’ ”5 His account of evangelical ambivalence about ecclesiastical structures stresses political and social circumstances in the early modern West more than religious sources, but Hindmarsh does highlight important early precedents for later evangelical practices. Among Pietists and some Puritans in the seventeenth century emerged the building blocks of an evangelical approach to the church. Some English Protestants, for instance, began to require for admission to membership a personal testimony
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