Discipline which is so inflexible as to leave no place for repentance and reconciliation has ceased to be truly Christian; for it is no less a scandal to cut off the penitent sinner from all hope of re-entry into the comfort and security of the fellowship of the redeemed community than it is to permit flagrant wickedness to continue unpunished in the Body of Christ.

— Philip Hughes (1915–1990), Anglikanischer Priester, Neutestamentler und Theologe

Topics: Church & Congregation, Guilt & Forgiveness

Philip Hughes

Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (1915–1990) war ein anglikanischer Priester und Neutestamentler, der an theologischen Seminaren in England und den USA lehrte. Er stand für eine reformierte Schriftauslegung, löste jedoch im evangelikalen Spektrum durch seine Befürwortung der bedingten Unsterblichkeit theologische Kontroversen aus. Heutigen Bibellesern erschließen seine Kommentare die biblischen Texte durch die Verknüpfung historisch-theologischer Gelehrsamkeit mit detaillierter Exegese.

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