These are just the outline notes to accompany the audio version (with the same title) of a paper I delivered in Honiton, Devon, May 2018. Introduction Explain title. Christ’s ekklēsia. The corruption produced by the Fathers. Attempted recovery before the Reformation. The Reformation and the aftermath. The Corruption Fathers’ Corruption? 2nd to 5th centuries. Going to the old covenant. Hierarchy. Clergy/Laity. Sacraments and sacramentalism. Sacerdotalism. The withering of the priesthood of all believers. Infant baptism and baptismal regeneration. The fusion of church and State. Enforced uniformity. Political councils. Christendom. See, for instance, my The Pastor: Does He Exist?; The Priesthood of All Believers: Slogan or Substance?; Infant Baptism Tested; Battle for the Church: 1517–1644; Letting Loose a Gadfly: Edward Miall Speaks Today. During the next 1000 years, triumph of Rome in the West, sacral society, popery, the mass, Mary worship etc.
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