---
title: 'Which Is Prior? Word or Church?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Childs Robinson'
date: 1959-07-15
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Ancient and Medieval Church History'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'John 10'
- 'Genesis 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/robinson-1959-which-is-prior-word-or-church
---

# Which Is Prior? Word or Church?

1959 journal: conference notice; report on Albigensian persecution; theological piece arguing the Word precedes the Church—present as Old Testament, incarnate Christ, and preached Word at Pentecost.

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