Of Schism - The True Nature of It

Owen's 1657 treatise on schism returns to the New Testament — specifically the Corinthian letters — to argue that schism is not the departure from a national church or submission to bishops, but internal division within a congregation. With relentless precision Owen dismantles Roman Catholic and Anglican charges against Protestant dissenters, exposing false definitions of schism, the self-serving rhetoric of those who wield the accusation, and the illegitimacy of the Church of Rome as a church of Christ. A landmark of Congregationalist ecclesiology.