"In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity"
~ Rupertus Meldenius, German Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century
https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/essentials-unity-non-essentials-liberty-all-things
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In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity
Mark Ross
Philip Schaff, the distinguished nineteenth-century church historian, calls the saying in our title “the watchword of Christian peacemakers.” Often attributed to great theologians such as Augustine, it comes from an otherwise undistinguished German Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century, Rupertus Meldenius. The phrase occurs in a tract on Christian unity written (circa 1627) during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), a bloody time in European history in which religious tensions played a significant role. The saying has found great favor among subsequent writers such as Richard Baxter, and has since been adopted as a motto by the Moravian Church of North America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Might it serve us well as a motto for every church and for every denomination today?
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