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| | Lenten Meditations Deacon Marks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Scholars remember them for their renewal of the church, for John Wesley’s combination of erudition and insistence on "plain preaching." Theologians speak of their staunch faith in "sola scriptura," the Reformation idea that scripture, not the church, is the sole authority for faith and doctrine. |
 | | The boar, identified with Christ’s persecutors, reputedly refused to leave its cage; but the bear, a symbol of gluttony, lust, and the devil incarnate, attacked voraciously. |
 | | In that sermon he roundly attacked the idea that the church is an arm of the state or of society and defended it as the vehicle as God’s prophetic voice. |
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