Digging Out the Embedded Church Discovering the Body of Christ within the churches: an introduction to the history of Christian Unity John Isherwood Digging Out the Embedded Church Discovering the Body of Christ within the churches: an introduction to the history of Christian Unity As author of this book, I give permission for it to be published electronically. Parts may be reproduced in other works as long as those extracts do not exceed the fair use provisions in copyright law and the source is cited. The authors I cite are the copyright holders of their own text. My use of their material is within the terms of fair use for scholastic review. © John Isherwood January 2010 Published by The Maranatha Community 102 Irlam Road, Flixton, Manchester M41 6JT United Kingdom Tel: 0161 748 4858 Fax: 0161 747 7379 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.maranathacommunity.org.uk The Maranatha Community comprises thousands of Christians drawn from all the major Christian traditions, praying, working and serving as one. We are Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostalists, and members of the Salvation Army, United Reformed, Orthodox and New Churches. Dedication In this Centenary year of the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh (1910), this book is dedicated to all those pioneers of Christian Unity throughout the history of the Church who, beyond narrow interests and prejudices, glimpsed the vision of the body of Christ worshipping, witnessing and serving together in the Kingdom of God as Christ intended. ‘These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.