Wounds That Heal: The Importance of Church Discipline within Balthasar Hubmaier’s Theology
Ebook
Is church discipline really necessary? One sixteenth-century Anabaptist reformer certainly thought so. A contemporary of Luther and Zwingli, Balthasar Hubmaier believed that church discipline was so important that he included the doctrine in every major area of his theology. Not only did church discipline appear in his doctrine of humanity, salvation, and the church, as a theoretical construct, but he also included practical instructions regarding its implementation in the life of the church. In this book Goncharenko examines Hubmaier's teaching on discipline and considers its relevance to the church today.
"Simon Goncharenko's most welcome study of the place of
discipline in Balthasar Hubmaier's understanding of the church is
characterized by jargon-free, flowing prose. Through a patient
probing of the sources and development of Hubmaier's mature
thought, he shows the coherence--without bypassing occasional
inconsistencies--in his subject's thought. Goncharenko is steeped
in the secondary as well as primary literature on his subject and
gives well-considered reasons for his assessment of the growing and
diverse body of scholarly literature on Hubmaier's theology. In
addition to his considerable academic achievement the author offers
pastors a compellingly articulated model for a believers'
church."
--John D. Rempel
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
"In Wounds That Heal, Dr. Goncharenko has done a masterful
job introducing the reader to one of the most important and
biblically minded pastors in the Reformation, Dr. Balthasar
Hubmaier. In this thoroughly researched work, Goncharenko discusses
crucial topics for the contemporary reader--salvation,
discipleship, and church discipline--and, through the life of the
Anabaptist martyr, persuasively reminds us that the best
theologians given by the Lord to His Church are the ones who adhere
to a strict biblicism. While there are many deep theological
discussions and insights within this fabulous work, the reader will
also gain a powerful understanding of the importance of the belief
in the sufficiency of Scripture upon the Christian life."
--Emir F. Caner
Truett-McConnell College
"'Church discipline as an integrative theological motif?!' Today,
many theologians would decry such a notion as hopelessly arcane,
even a potential threat to theological freedom. Yet the same
scholars routinely lament the atomization of humanity, the demise
of community, and the division of the theological disciplines. In
Wounds That Heal, Simon Goncharenko demonstrates through Balthasar
Hubmaier that redemptive church discipline may bridge anthropology
with ecclesiology, dogma with praxis, and sanctification with
justification inter alia. This is a text worthy of close and
attentive reading."
--Malcolm B. Yarnell III
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: Wounds That Heal: The Importance of Church Discipline within Balthasar Hubmaier’s Theology
- Authors: Simon V. Goncharenko, Paige Patterson
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781630874452, 9781498261289, 1630874450, 1498261280
- Resource ID: LLS:9781630874452
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:06:36Z
Simon Goncharenko is the Founding Pastor of 21 Fellowship (SBC) in Midway, Texas, and a regular contributor to the Prayer Message Segment of Houston's KHCB (105.7FM) Radio Network.