#congregationalist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #congregationalist, aggregated by home.social.
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Raffles identifies a logical problem with paying for prayers for the dead. If prayers work by being prayers, free ones work equally well. If every mass already commemorates all the faithful including the poor, what are the fees purchasing? Raffles doesn’t demolish the theology. The economics do it for him.
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Collyer: the Gospel should have no enemies—it breathes peace, promotes human joy, sweetens every connection, strengthens philanthropy. Jesus made friends with outcasts and offended religious people. Today the pattern reverses: gospel-wearers create division at conservative churches over new litmus tests, while arguing against every humanitarian urgency. Collyer would have found this puzzling.
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Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.
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Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.
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Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.
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Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.
How can you practice the charity of the bible?
#congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.
How can you practice the charity of the bible?
#congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ David Livingstone ✧
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...
#LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ David Livingstone ✧
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...
#LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone