Church Models Bibliography

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AINSLIE, JAMES L. The Doctrines of Ministerial Order in the Reformed Churches of the 16th and 17th Centuries.Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1940. Chapter IV "The Equality of Ministers." pp. 91-123.

ALLEN, ROLAND. Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.

ANONYMOUS. Charity and the Clergy: being A Review, by a Protestant Clergyman, of the "New Themes" Controversy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853.

ANONYMOUS. Eldership: The Biblical Doctrine. The Banner of Truth reprint.

ANONYMOUS. "The Eldership" Princeton Review (January 1847) 42-61.

ANONYMOUS. "The Officers of the Apostolic Church" The Union Seminary Magazine No. 1 (November-December, 1894) pp.85-95.

ANONYMOUS. "Rights of Ruling Elders." The Princeton Review Vol. 15 (April 1843) 313-32.

BANNERMAN, D. DOUGLAS. "Parties Who Exercise Church Power, Part IV" in The Church. Banner of Truth reprint.

BANNERMAN, D. DOUGLAS. The Scripture Doctrine of the Church Historically and Exegetically Considered, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.

BARRETT, C. K. Church, Ministry, and Sacraments in the New Testament. Exeter: Paternoster, 1985.

BAXTER, G. A. Parity: the Scriptural Order of the Christian Ministry. A Sermon. Lynchburg: Fletcher & Toler, 1840.

BENNETT, W. H. "Elder" in Encyclopedia or Dictionary of Religion and Ethics. N. g., pp. 253--6.

BENZINGER, I. "Elders in Insrael" in The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, pp. 103-4.

BRADSHAW, Paul F. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1992

BRANICK. V. The House Church in the Writings of Paul. Wilmington, Del.:Michael Glazier, 1989.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE D.D., F.R.S; The Works of. London: Thomas Tegg: 1840.

CAMPBELL, PETER COLIN. The Theory of Ruling Eldership or The Position of the Lay Ruler in the Reformed Churches Examined. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

CAMPENHAUSEN. H. VON. Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power in the Church of the First Three Centuries. London: A. & C. Black, 1969.

COLEMAN, LYMAN. Ancient Christianity Exemplified in the Private, Domestic, Social, and Civil Life of the Primitive Christians, Lippincott, Grambo & Co.1853. Of Yale College (1796 -1882).

COLWELL, STEPHEN. A Review of New Themes for the Protestant Clergy, Etc. Second Edition, Revised. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

CORNICK, DAVID. "The Reformed Elder" in The Expository Times 235-40.

CROOKS, GEORGE R. and JOHN F. HURST, ed. "Deaconesses" in Library of Biblical and Theological Literature. Vol. VIII. & History of the Christian Church. Volume II. New York: Eaton & Mains, n.d. pp. 130-34.

DAVIDSON, SAMUEL. A Text-Book of Church History. ed. Henry Smith. Vol. I. A.D.1-726. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857.

DAVIS, JOHN D. "Elder" in The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible revised and rewritten by Henry Snyder Gehman. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, n.d., p. 157.

DE GRUYTER, WALTER. "Zeitschrift fur die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Alteren Kirche" in Z Neut W. Vol.79:1-2 (1988).

EDERSHEIM, ALFRED. The Temple. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA.1994.

G., A. "Family and Family Life" in The Jewish Encyclopedia ed. Isidore Singer. Volume V, pp. 336-8. N.g., KTAV Publishing House, Inc., n.d.

G., J. H. " ELDER, or ZAKEN" in The Jewish Encyclopedia ed. Isidore Singer. Volume V, p. 92. N.g., KTAV Publishing House, Inc., n.d.

GALL, JAMES. The Synagogue, Not the Temple, the Germ and Model of the Christian Church. This is rare and very valuable.

GILES, K. Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians. San Francisco: Harper&Row, 1991.

GLAS, JOHN. "Of the Unity and Distinction of the Elder's Office" in The Works of Mr. John Glas in Five Volumes, Second Edition. Perth: R. Morison and Son, 1782. pp. 213-228.

GOGUEL, M. The Primitive Church. London: Allen & Unwin, 1964.

GOPPELT, L. Apostolic and Post-apostolic Times. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

HALDANE, JAMES ALEX. A View of the Social Worship and Ordinances Observed by the First Christians, Drawn from the Sacred Scriptures Alone:being an Attempt to Enforce Their Divine Obligation; and to Represent the Guilt and Evil Consequences of Neglecting Them. Edinburgh: J. Ritchie, 1805.

HALDANE, JAMES ALEX. Observations on Various Subjects. Published by John Ritchie, 1808.

HALDANE, ROBERT. An Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, 1835.

HARNACK, A. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. Vol.1. New York: Putnam, 1905.

HATFIELD, EDWIN F. "The Primitive Eldership." The American Presbyterian and Theological Review, New Series, Vol. VI. (October, 1868) 506-31.

HAWTHORNE, GERALD. Word Biblical Commentary: Philippians, Word, Inc., Dallas, 1983, pp. 7-10. The author is a distinguished professor and scholar at Wheaton College. Contains important work on the identity of deacons.

HITCHCOOK, ROSWELL D. "Lay Eldership." American Presbyterian and Theological Review. April 1868:253-68.

HODGE, CHARLES. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.

HOLMBERG, B. Paul and Power: The Structure of Authority in the Primitive Church as Reflected in the Pauline Epistles. Lund: Gleerup, 1978.

HORT, FENTON JOHN ANTHONY. The Christian Ecclesia, A Course of Lectures in the Early History ahd Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia and Four Sermons. London: Macmilland and Co., 1900.

HUTHER, JOH. Ed. Ctritical and Exegetical Hand-Book to the Epistles to Timothy and Titus and to the Epistle to the Hebrews. trans. David Hunter with Preface and Supplementary Notes to the American Edition by Timothy Dwight. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, n.d.

JEREMIAS, JOACHIM. "ABBA Studien zur neutestamentlichen" Theologie und Zeitgeschichte. Gottengen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966.

JEREMIAS, JOACHIM. "Die Briefe an Timotheus und Titus" trans. Hermann Strathmann. Gottingen: Bandenhoecf & Reprecht, 1953.

KORNFIELD, WILLIAM. "What hath our Western Money and our Western Gospel Wrought?" Evangelical Missions Quarterly (July 1991):230-236.

L., J. Z. "Sanhedrin." The Jewish Encyclopedia ed. Isidore Singer. N.g.: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., pp. 41-44.

LIGHTFOOT, J. B. The Apostolic Fathers Part I. S. Clement of Rome. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890.

LIGHTFOOT, J. B. Saint Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House.

LIGHTFOOT, J. B. St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, 1978 (orig. 1913). This contains an essay on ministry.

LINDSAY, THOMAS M. The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries. Minneapolis: James Family Publishing, 1977 reprint from the Central Baptist Theological Seminary.

MEIER, JOHN P. "Presbyteros in the Pastoral Epistles." Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol.35:1(1973)323-45.

MILNER, THOMAS. The Messiah's Service . Undated 19th Century work.

MILTON, JOHN. Considerations touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church Wherein is Also Discourc'd of Tithes, Church-fees, Church-revenues; and Whether any Maintenance of Ministers Can be Settl'd by Law. London: L. Chapman, 1659.

MILTON, JOHN. "On the New Forces of Conscience under the Long Parliament." in Considerations touching ..." London: L. Chapman, 1659.

MILTON, JOHN. The Reason of Church Government, 1642.

MINES, FLAVEL S. A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1871.

MOBERLY, D. D., R. C. Ministerial Priesthood. London: John Murray. 1913.

POWER, DAVID. "The Basis for Official Ministry in the Church." In Official Ministry in a New Age, edited by James Provost (Canon Law Society of America, 1981)

RAMSEY, J. B. "The Elders that Rule Well" in The Central Prestyerian. Richmond, September 17, 1859.

RICHEY, RUSSEL E. Denominationalism. Nashville: Abingdon, 1977.

SCHWEIZER, E. Church Order in the New Testament. Naperville, Ill.: Allenson, 1961.

SCHAEFFER, FRANCIS. The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century, 1970.

SCHAFF, PHILIP. History of the Christian Church, Vol I, pg. 475.

SHELTON, O.L The Church Functioning Effectively, St. Louis: The Bethany Press, 1946.

SMYLIE, J. A. "The Presbyterate." Southern Presbyterian Review Vol. 23 (1872)228-45.

SYKES, NORMAN. Old Priest and New Presbyter. (C.U.P.)

VERDUIN, LEONARD. The Reformers and Their Stepchildren. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1964.

VON CAMPENHAUSEN, HANS. Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power in the Church of the First Three Centuries. trans. J. A. Baker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969.

WARKENTIN, A. Ordination: A Biblical Historical View. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.

WILSON, JAMES P. The Primitive Government of the Christian Churches. Philadelphia: French & Perkins, 1833.

WITHEROW, THOMAS. The Apostolic Church? Which Is It? First published 1856. Glasgow: Free Presbyterian Publ. 1983.

 

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