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The Churches That Forgot What Christ Remembered: Institutional Memory, Selective History, Ecclesial Truthfulness, and the Seven Churches of Revelation

Grace, Daniel J.

This academic study develops a theology of ecclesial memory through the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2–3. It argues that the risen Christ remembers what churches selectively preserve, suppress, rename, or forget. The paper examines Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia,…

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