The Free Church and the Early Church <subTitle>Bridging the historical and theological divide</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Williams, D. H.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub.</publisher> <dateIssued>2002</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>183tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Growing concerns over dramatic but shiftless worship, lack of ecclesiastical accountability, and ""trendy"" theology are prompting many evangelical and free church communions to seek a firmer base for their Christian faith and practice. This challenging book argues that only a rediscovery of the church's patristic roots will help free church and evangelical Protestantism preserve its identity in light of its present tendencies toward internal fragmentation and accommodation to Western culture... In their honest search for a truly orthodox and biblical Christianity, they define some of the problems with current Protestant perspectives and suggest ways to bridge the gulf currently separating free church Christianity from its patristic past.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Daniel H. Williams</note> <subject> <topic>Protestant churches</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Tradition (Theology)</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Early Church (30-600)</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Theology -- Early church</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">270</classification> <classification authority="ddc">D184-W72</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802849861, 0802849865</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11345/11.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11345/11.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071014.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>