A Sevenfold Believers'
Church Typology
The typology used in this paper is based
primarily on Durnbaugh,
Estep, Bender, Littell, Williams, and Yoder, as noted.
The Believers' Church is
primarily "Christianity as discipleship."
As type
a or model distilled somewhat
artificially from its various
historical manifestations, it demonstrates most
basically seven
characteristics. Below listed the seven elements,
are
accompanied by
descriptive phrases from the authors noted. The
typology was
arrived at deductively, based
primarily on the elements noted by
these authors.
(Durnbaugh).
(Littell).
(Yoder).
(Williams).
(Littell).
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The Asburv Seminarian
(Durnbaugh).
(Durnbaugh).
(Durnbaugh, Littell).
(Williams).
Disciplined community
(Williams).
(Yoder).
(Littell).
(Yoder).
(H.
Bender).
(Littell).
(Estep).
thus an
(Estep).
(Yoder).
(H. Bender).
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(Littell).
(Yoder).
(Estep).
(Estep).
(Estep).
(Durnbaugh).
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Universal Church in one place
(Littell).
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