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The featured studies
The studies in The Church and Her Practice, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Church and Her Practice holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 17 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 7 studies ask why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
17 studies, 0 as cards, 17 in the register
The register: 17 studies of this kind
- Discipline and LawsuitsCorinth tolerated an incest case and was proud of itself while it did, and its members were suing one another before pagan courts.
- Gleaning and the corner of the field
- Hospitality in Israel and the Early Church
- How Scripture Shapes Christian Ethics
- Order in WorshipIn 1 Corinthians 14 Paul orders the exercise of tongues and prophecy in the gathered church by one measure, edification, and closes by commanding both order and liberty: desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
- The Body and Sexual Ethics in Scripture
- The Book of the Covenant
- The Christian Traditions
- The ChurchJesus said He would build something, and the word He used meant a gathering of people who had been called out: not a building.
- The Lord's SupperJesus took bread at a Passover meal and said “this is My body.” Christians have never agreed on what He meant by is.
- The Sabbath in Jewish Practice
- The Seder, the Meal Exodus 12 Is Kept By
- The Tithe
- Vows in Israel
- Water BaptismJesus commanded baptism, and Christians have read that command in more than one way.
- Work and Vocation
- WorshipJesus told a woman at a well that the right mountain was about to stop mattering, because the Father is looking for a kind of worshipper rather than a place.
Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.
7 studies, 0 as cards, 7 in the register
The register: 7 studies of this kind
- An Eye for an Eye in the Law of Moses
- Head CoveringsIn 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 Paul regulates how men and women in Corinth were to appear while praying or prophesying in the assembly, arguing from headship, from creation, from the angels, and from nature.
- Infant Baptism and Believers' Baptism
- Sunday and the Sabbath
- The Kingdom and Culture: Dominion, Transformation and Separation
- Truth-Telling and the Hard Cases of Deception
- Women in MinistryScripture names women as prophets, judges, deacons, teachers and the first witnesses of the resurrection, and Joel's promise of a Spirit poured out on sons and daughters alike is the one Peter preaches at Pentecost.
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The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.