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…there can be no argument to the truth of God in Jesus Christ without
witnesses…
Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe (2002)

From the very beginning, the Christian community recognized the need for witnesses. Luke’s history of the early church, mediated by the later experiences of that community, tells us that appointing a witness was the first task of the church, before all else. In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter’s first recorded speech deals with the gap in the number of witnesses left by the betrayal and death of Judas. In the presence of the whole community of the followers of Christ (the sound and round number of 120), Peter explains his plan:

‘So one of the men who have accompanied us throughout the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.’ (Acts 1:21-22Open Link in New Window)

Famously, the lot fell on Matthias. Continue Reading »



This is part of a series of posts. Others in the series are:—
  1. KGH : Death to Herbertism
  2. KGH : Lin-Chi, the Curate and the Anglican Divine
  3. KGH : “…how many live so unlike him now…”
  4. KGH : The only thing I don’t run
  5. KGH : The Cult of Nice
  6. KGH : A little soft around the edges
  7. KGH : Herbertism Habilitated
  8. KGH : +ABC and the 3 Ws
  9. KGH : Witness
  10. KGH : Watchman — The Biblical imagery
  11. KGH : Watchman — Cultural Literacy
  12. KGH : Watchman — A Dissenting Opinion
  13. KGH : Watchman — Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture
  14. KGH : Watchman — Niebuhr and finding meaning
  15. KGH : Watchman — Niebuhr’s “Five Types” of culture
  16. KGH : Watchman — Niebuhr’s legacy
  17. KGH : Watchman — Not Niebuhr, but Barth
  18. KGH : Weaver — What is a “community”?
  19. KGH : Weaver — Bonhoeffer and community
  20. KGH : Weaver — Communities and Ethics
  21. KGH : Weaver — a human society unlike other human societies
  22. KGH : Weaver — Bonhoeffer’s “Life Together”
  23. KGH : Weaver — “Life Together” 1
  24. KGH : Weaver — “Life Together” 2

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