An Introduction to the Reformed Tradition: A Way of Being the Christian CommunityWestminster John Knox Press, 1981 M01 1 - 264 pages A concise and readable study for laypersons and clergy alike, this book is indispensable for all informed people in many different confessional communities. With the passion of one who not only observes but believes, John Leith touches on all aspects of Reformed history, theology, polity, liturgy, and Christian culture with a balance of enthusiasm and critical judgment that always rings true. |
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Contents
TRADITIONING THE FAITH | 17 |
A Secular and Pluralistic Society | 24 |
THE REFORMED CHURCHES | 32 |
Great Britain | 41 |
Australia New Zealand and South Africa | 50 |
Membership of Reformed Churches | 56 |
Diagram of Presbyterian Churches in Scotland | 68 |
The Polemic Against Idolatry | 74 |
POLITY AND THE REFORMED TRADITION | 145 |
Presbyterianism | 155 |
Episcopacy | 161 |
Congregationalism | 168 |
LITURGY AND THE REFORMED TRADITION | 174 |
Reformed Liturgies | 180 |
Farels Liturgy | 188 |
Representative Reformed Liturgies and Directories | 197 |
The Life of the Mind as the Service of God | 80 |
The Disciplined Life | 85 |
What Is Theology? | 91 |
The Development of Reformed Theology | 112 |
Representative Theologians | 127 |
Reformed Confessions | 133 |
Representative Reformed Theologies | 140 |
CHAPTER V | 144 |
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