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I recently came across a book by Rodney Clapp entitled "A Peculiar People". Rodney is the senior editor for general and academic books at Inter Varsity Press in Illinois.
If you read my article and find it a little naive or unsophisticated, you may find "A Peculiar People" much more to your taste. He expresses very eloquently a lot of the things that I have struggled to put into words.
Georges Florovsky has this to say on the promo page to "A Peculiar People":
"Christianity entered history as a new social order, or rather a new social dimension. From the very beginning, Christianity was not primarily a "doctrine", but exactly a "community". There was not only a "Message" to be proclaimed and delivered, and "Good News" to be declared. There was precisely a New Community, distinct and peculiar, in the process of growth and formation, to which members were called and recruited. Indeed, "fellowship" (koinoinia) was the basic category of Christian existence."
Amen! I could not agree more!
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