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This story of the early Christian church—from its infancy to the conversion of the English in about A.D. 800—pictures a church that is an unquenchable spiritual force organized for tribulation. Its spiritual resources are never stronger than in times of seeming disaster. Bruce gives the reader a feel for the evangelistic fervor of the Apostles and the early Christians in a narrative filled with...

may well ask whose form it is that we discern so clearly and compellingly in the gospels, if it be neither the earthly nor the heavenly Christ. The answer given by some is that it is the Christ of the faith of the early Church. So it is, of course, but the Christ of the faith of the early Church was not created by that faith (in spite of all that we have been told about a “creative community”). A church which by its faith could create the Christ of the gospels would be a greater and more inexplicable
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