I am posting this without editing format for the blog. This is in response to a question. This is a nearly finished chapter from volume 2 of Separate Identity. I will, for obvious reasons, remove this post after a few days.
Food for Thinking Christians
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3 comments:
I do have a question. Why is the book titled "ORGANIZATIONAL" identity of Russell was against organization? Just a thought!!
Russell was against denominational organization. But he saw the church as an organized entity. Besides, what ever his belief, doctrinal uniqueness resulted in an organizational identity.
I have moderated out a comment that was polemical in nature, and, while I'm certain the opinions expressed in it are sincerely held, it was historically inaccurate too.
I shouldn't need to restate the rules here.
Russell was a congregationalist in church polity. He believed in organization at the local level. He created a recognizable organization bound by doctrine and attached to himself. While he gave lip-service to freedom from denominational organization,refusing at one point to be called by a specific name, their mutual association centered on his writings created a recognizable organization, congregational in nature, presbyterian in local structure.
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