TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halliday,Bob
TI  - Little sister: a second Israel in seventeenth-century Scotland 
SN  - 9781630872571
AV  - BX9071 .H35 2014eb
U1  - 274.1106 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock
KW  - Church of Scotland
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Reformed Church
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Église réformée
KW  - Écosse
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference (pages 247-250)
N2  - The Christian state church emerged from the religion of pagan Rome. A declining western empire gave the church political power, but provoked conflict between church and state. In the Scottish post-Reformation Stewart monarchy, the king claimed to control the church by divine right. Covenanters exchanged state control for a theocracy built on the idea that Scotland, like Israel, had a God-given destiny. As the purest kirk in Christendom, nation and kirk were the political and religious faces of one body. Like pre-Christian Israel, Scotland was one of the only two nations ever covenanted to the Lord. This idea owed more to political pressure than theological insight. Today, a mindset survives which still refuses to separate kirk from nation and thereby undermines the missionary calling. The urgent need is to recognize that God made a covenant with Israel alone, and to think in terms of a second Israel was to misunderstand the development of church history. Today's Kirk must see herself not as the representative of the Christian faith of the Scottish people . . . to bring the ordinances of religion to the people in every parish of Scotland, but as the representative of Christ with an apostolic mandate for evangelism
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