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The More Excellent Way

2000 Years of Jesus' New Way of Life 

Table of Contents

1.   The Christians, Are They Really Different? ...  1

2.   To Walk with God ... 10

3.   Turning Away from God ... 20

4.   The New Commandment of Jesus Christ:  A New Way for a New Age ... 36

5.   St. Paul and The Way:  The Struggle to Preserve Christ's Way of Life ... 85

6.   St. John and The Way: St. John's Attempt to Save Christ's Way of Love ... 121

7.   Christ's Way of Life in Hebrews, James, and Peter ... 135

8.   Jesus' Way of Life in the Post-Apostolic Church, 95 – 175 A.D. ... 144

9.   The Early Growth of Asceticism and Church Law, 175 – 300 A.D. ... 187

10.  The Eclipse of Jesus' Way of Life--Asceticism and Monasticism, 300 - 1500 A.D. ... 218

11.  Christian Love and Early Renewers of the Church - Chrysostom and Augustine ... 251

12.  The Eclipse of Jesus' Way of Life—Church Law   200 - 1500 A.D. ... 289

13.  Luther and the Return to Jesus' Way of Life ... 340

14.  Luther and the Return to Christian Freedom ... 380

15.  John Calvin and the Christian Ethic ... 430

16.  Jesus' Way of Life in the World Today ... 453

Appendix One ... 508

Index ... 514-527

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