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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kraus, C. Norman (Clyde Norman), 1924 The community of the Spirit : how the church is in the world / C. Norman Krause.Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8361-3619-5 (alk. paper) 1. Church. I. Title. BV600.2.K68 1993 262dc20 92-34740 CIP
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and unless otherwise indicated are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Excerpts marked (NRSV) are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; (NEB) from The New English Bible. The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970.
THE COVER is based on the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) logo designed by Glen Fretz for MWC Assembly 11, Strasbourg, 1984. Used by permission of Mennonite World Conference, 7 avenue de la Fort-Noire, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
THE COMMUNITY OF THE SPIRIT Copyright 1993 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved Website: www.mph.org Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-34740 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3619-5 Printed in the United States of America Cover and book design by Paula M. Johnson
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Contents
Foreword
by Alan Kreider
6
Author's Preface
9
Chapter 1 Pentecost and the Gospel
11
Chapter 2 The Individual-in-Community in the Bible
31
Chapter 3 Jesus and the Community
57
Chapter 4 The Apostolic Community
80
Chapter 5 The Saved and Saving Community
103
Chapter 6 The Gospel of Peace
126
Chapter 7 The Spirit of Love
149
Chapter 8 The Community's Witness to Grace
169
Notes
188
Bibliography
201
Scripture Index
209
Subject Index
212
The Author
220
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Foreword
Missionaries, the apostle remarked in a famous passage (2 Cor. 5:1620) are "ambassadors for Christ." Their ambassadorial tasks include formulating a message ("the message of reconciliation") and conveying it through persuasion and entreaty. But good ambassadors also develop imaginative empathy and good listening. They learn a perceptive detachment enabling them to discern the unspoken (and often unrecognized) assumptions of the people to whom they are sent. If they do this well, if they "regard no one from a human point of view,'' they convey a message people can understand. Their message is "news," for it speaks to the real circumstances of the hearers.
C. Norman Kraus is a missionary theologian. His major recent writings (Jesus Christ Our Lord and God Our Savior) have been enriched by his encounter with the people and civilization of Japan. But The Community of the Spirit, which I am pleased to welcome in this revised edition, has emerged from his missionary encounter with North America. Here is a learned and lucid restatement of the Christian message that grows out of Kraus' sensitive, ambassadorial listening the leitmotif of modern North American lifeindividualism.
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