Supper Club Series #4: Yuill

Sanctity & Sacrament by Chick Yuill

Insights for Salvationists from an Oxford Don, a contemporary poet and a Jesuit priest

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t would not be in the least surprising to me if more than a few of you, on reading the title of this paper, were thinking, “Not that old chestnut again!” Certainly, for all of my adult life, the subject of the sacraments has been a point of discussion amongst us, and some have understandably grown weary of the topic. I have heard it dismissed as essentially a “second order” question and one that, on whatever side of the debate one stands, has little to do with the vital tasks of mission, service and evangelism. › Continue reading

Supper Club Series #3: Barr

Salvation Army Identity Crisis: Stories of an organisational adolescence?

The Supper Club: see the end of this article for an introduction to this section of theRubicon.

Is The Salvation Army still a holiness movement?

By Major Ian Barr

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n what sense is the Army a holiness movement in terms of its teaching, testimony and practice? What have Salvationists understood by the terms “sanctification” and “holiness,” and how is this expressed in contemporary teaching and testimony?

Of course, this all hangs upon how we define and distinguish the term “holiness movement.”

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Supper Club Series

Suffering for and to Christ in William Booth’s

Eschatological Ecclesiology

by Andrew Miller

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n a given Sunday, a visitor might walk into a Salvation Army worship service and hear the congregation confidently singing one of its battle choruses to the accompaniment of brass band:

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Supper Club Series

Salvation Army Identity Crisis
Stories of an organisational adolescence?

The Supper Club: see the end of this article for an introduction to the newest section of theRubicon.

Autocratic Practical Holiness: A recipe for decline in postmodernity?

by David Taylor 

Introduction:

If the Salvation Army is, as proposed for this series of dialogues, an “adolescent teenager experiencing vital growing pains,” then its identity crisis is chiefly wrapped up in a lack of theological clarity. › Continue reading