Sentences with phrase «protestant ecclesiology»

This could be one of the reasons for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and for years upon years, spirituality focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible studies, etc. in the church.

Not exact matches

The ecclesiology implicit in what Moore commends is a familiar one — even, arguably, a historical one for many Protestants.

Moreover, the ease with which Christian theologians can move from an emphasis on Christian particularity to the trap of Christian exclusivism (especially in Christology for Protestants, in ecclesiology for Catholics) has made me wary of many theological appeals to particularity.

Volf's rigorous ecclesiology is rooted in the theology of the Trinity, and presents a challenge to the ecclesiologies of Catholic, Orthodox and most mainline Protestant churches.

The ecclesiology on which I am working concerns Chinese, Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants within the horizon of a crumbling of modernity that brings Christians closer to premodernity than they've been in perhaps 300 years, and closer to the situation of the first centuries than they've been in more than a millennium and a half.

Communio ecclesiology is responsive to the Protestant emphasis upon the local congregation where the pure gospel is preached and the sacraments are rightly administered (Augsburg Confession, 1530).

On the Protestant side, he tried to stake out a via media between the compromised theology of Harry Emerson Fosdick and his successors on the one hand and the truncated ecclesiology and harsh temperament of sectarian fundamentalism on the other.