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  • Anabaptist views of Jan Beukelszoon did not much differ from those of other Dutch leaders, who preached the coming of the kingdom of God, which the faithful
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  • total of about 3,000 men, women, and children on board, who expected to find a Jeremiah (2 Maccabees 15) to show them the way to the kingdom of God. The
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  • the New Zion, elected to initiate the kingdom of God. In February Matthijsz also arrived, and the rebellious reign of the Dutch adventurers began. On 5 April
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  • forms and customs, but in unity of love, faith, and hope, and in connection with this a common work in the kingdom of God."  Early leaders in the conference
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  • and of our brotherhood on a basis of faith and work and so to lead to deeper bonds of union, and help to cultivate and promote the kingdom of God and its
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  • were accepted to the extent that the use of the sword was declared justifiable in the building of the kingdom of God; but that the time for such use was not
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  • brethren and nobody in the kingdom of God." He exhorts the government in so many words "not to judge by the sword the zeal for God of those who do not understand
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  • he refutes the teaching of the Anabaptists of Münster concerning the violent erection of the kingdom of God, since the kingdom of Christ is spiritual, and
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  • they considered it their obligation to set up the kingdom of God and destroy the ungodly. A group of Melchiorites attacked the Oldeklooster monastery near
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  • imminent coming of the kingdom of God which he proclaimed. Obbe did not stay in Amsterdam. He was no longer secure anywhere. In the late fall of 1534 he came
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  • promote the kingdom of God, to the exclusion of any selfish interests. This striving found expression in the reports given by representatives of the several
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  • church he names seven ordinances of the church of God: pure doctrine, Scriptural use of the sacraments, washing the feet of the saints, separation (ban and
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  • 1959. Niebuhr, H. R. The Kingdom of God in America. New York: Harper, 1935. Perrin, Norman. The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus. Philadelphia: Westminster
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  • in the context of the kingdom of God. This interpretation of Christianity with its attendant concept of the church as a fellowship of obedient disciples
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  • conference, in the states of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Montana. To promote the growth and expansion of the kingdom of God: (a) by establishing
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  • 5:38-48 (nonresistance and love of enemies); Matthew 6:24 (serving God or mammon); Matthew 6:33 (seeking first the kingdom of God); Matthew 7:13-14 (the narrow
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  • into the kingdom of God. (3) Pacifism frequently fails to understand the basic nature of the state as an organization for the maintenance of order by coercive
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  • character of the brotherhood and the comprehensiveness of its task for the kingdom of God, he completely rewrote Innenland to present the truth of the Bruderhof
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  • Reconciles"; (10) Wichita, KS, U.S.A., 1978: "The Kingdom of God in a Changing World"; (11) Strasbourg, France, 1984: "God's People Serve in Hope"; (12) Winnipeg
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  • fold. The great number of these polemics, of which only a few were printed, complete the picture of a man who served the kingdom of God faithfully and without
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  • the names of the members entered, but as citizens of a kingdom of God which was expanding farther and farther. That has been the actual purpose of the church
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  • principle of the brotherhood in the Reformation period as well as later was not the rejection of infant baptism, but the establishment of the kingdom of God
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  • serving the kingdom of God. Through his numerous writings, his extensive correspondence, and frequent journeys, Jung-Stilling left traces of his influence
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  • interest was the kingdom of God and the saving of men. He was ordained a Lutheran minister at Tübingen in 1734. Banned from Saxony in 1736 because of his "separatistic"
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  • Christ. The Scriptures are the record of the voice of the Word of God. The Word of God is that which transcends whatever is written or printed whether on
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  • institutions, the search for the well-being of the neighbor, and the building of the kingdom of God . Within the first 15 years of the conference's existence, it grew
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  • representatives of both militant and pacifist wings, and Joris’s spiritualizing of controversial issues such as the identity of the angels of God who would avenge
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  • purpose of this organization is to promote fellowship among the churches, to co-operate in the spreading and establishing of the Kingdom of God in our own
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  • Sources of Denominationalism, 1929; The Kingdom of God in America, 1937; The Responsible Self 1963), Niebuhr has had particular import for Mennonites through
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  • interpretation of the Book of Ezra he proclaimed a great judgment about to break upon the world at Easter 1530, and the rise of a new kingdom of God on earth
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  • It was only a witness of the truth, not the actual and highest source of the understanding of the things of God. This source was God Himself and His Spirit
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  • thoroughly agreed, about the mysteries of the Judgment Day, of the end of the world, of the resurrection, of the Kingdom of God, of eternal judgment." "Those who
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  • degree of success of Menno's work in this area. Menno's activities here coincide with the last years of the bishopric of Archbishop Hermann von Wied of Cologne
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  • for the kingdom of God which might come at any time (i.e., when the number of martyrs is full). The "suffering church" is the true church of God throughout
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  • Baden (Germany) (category States of Germany)
    writing. An earnest concern of his was the training of young people for the work of the kingdom of God. For the instruction of youth he compiled a catechism
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  • refers to the return of the people of God after leaving the way of God. The return involves both a spiritual renewal of relationship to God in covenant and
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  • discipline, the seven decisions of Scripture, namely, the covenant of God, the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, the end of the world, the judgment, the
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  • The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894). In these works he expounds on his faith particularly on absolute non-resistance and forbidding violence of any
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  • before and after, under the providence of God was a fresh and vital discovery of the living truth and spirit of the New Testament. The experience was so
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  • the order of the Spirit of God before the breaking of bread, that we may all with one spirit and love break and eat of one bread and drink of one cup."
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  • weary of passively waiting for the kingdom of God, lent an ear to the commands of the sly seducer to come to Münster, or fell into the trap of his criminal
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  • dangerous typologizing and for the idea that the kingdom of God should bear the traits of the earthly kingdom of Israel, as Jan van Leyden taught. On the other
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  • communism. They saw the kingdom of God as a powerful historical reality providing the dynamic for social change in the direction of a welfare state and a
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  • patience born of an eschatological hope and expectation. This attitude, he thinks, belongs to the eschatological idea of the kingdom of God, which is "near"
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  • practical ways that God is a God of life, not death. "Say to them, "'As I live,' says the Lord God, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that
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  • sense of dependence on the power of God to free from the power of evil. Pieter Jansz wrote a tract urging people to "repent for the Kingdom of God is at
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  • their faith. They also called for the separation of church and state, and held that the kingdom of God, not earthly norms, is the standard by which all
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  • manner, so that we seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness. - Matthew 6:31-34. What is the kingdom of God, or in what does it consist? In this
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  • the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth and called all true believers "out of Babel," to which he later added the notion of gathering them in
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  • duties as elder, but continued to work for the kingdom of God as his strength permitted. In these 46 years of service for the church he also worked outside
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