Readers – Three revivals and one crisis
If we want to discover the office of Reader in the New Testament, we are in for a hard time. There simply is no such thing, or [...]
Do pastors have their own kind of spirituality?
On the 25th of June 2017, the Old-Catholic Church in Amsterdam hosted a symposium on the question whether there is such a thing as a specific priestly [...]
Reforms and limitations of Vatican II
In 1964 The Roman Catholic Church held the Second Vatican Council and adopted a new dogmatic constitution dealing with how the Church understood itself, in other words [...]
Clergy and laity dualism
In this article, we will look at the grounds, if any, for distinguishing two groups of Christians, a laity and a clergy. First of all, it is [...]
The meaning and benefits of blessing
The words “blessing” and “to bless” are used a lot in Church, and in a variety of meanings. But what is the essence of these concepts, and [...]
The unhappy marriage of 2 words
How two Greek words (for priest and elder) became confused and how this still affects us today. This subject is kind of controversial between Catholics and Protestants, [...]
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