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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.

seeking to avoid the competition and division that insistence upon correct church order generated, Whitefield could not prevent divisions within the evangelical movement. In some cases he even precipitated them. As Hindmarsh well notes, Whitefield and the Wesleys divided in 1739 over the Calvinistic doctrine of free grace, and one year later the issue of quietism separated the Moravians from the Wesleys and Whitefield. Consequently, despite the pious desire to avoid the forms and structures that
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