Sentences with phrase «between ecclesiology»

There is a distinction, of course, between ecclesiology - the aspect of theology that examines the nature and mission of the Church - and what the Church is in practice.

Even in the light of Phillips's criticism of Godsey, it may be questioned whether a real distinction can be made between ecclesiology and the doctrine of Christ in Bonhoeffer.

Of course throughout Church history there have been efforts to discover the connections between ecclesiology and ethics.

Not exact matches

Evangelicalism possesses no ecclesiology and that absence is the real issue, not the conflicts between its subdivisions.

Another element of Catholic ecclesiology makes clear the fundamental difference between democracy in the Church and in secular society.

It is not difficult to see the connection between these organizational patterns and theological questions such as the issue of the local Church in ecclesiology.

Would you feel like between yourself and NP there is an open meadow, or a boundary firmly separating your approaches to ecclesiology?

But my doctoral studies propelled me back to the Reformation, especially to the connection between the doctrines of election and ecclesiology, and this in turn forced me back to Barth.

According to Alan J. Bailyes, there were five theological issues between the ecumenical and evangelical positions: Church and world, the nature of conversion, Gospel and culture, Christology, and hermeneutics.3 Bailyes explains that a sound and solid ecclesiology has long been a weak link in the evangelical chain of theology, «coming a poor second or cven third behind its soteriology with its emphasis upon the individual and his / her relationship with God.

(14) A third has been the historical and systematic investigation of the relationship between the part played by reception and the contemporary ecclesiology of a given period.

Third, ecclesiology is an exciting way to think about the connections between preaching and ethics.

It is frequently observed that the most divisive disagreement between evangelicals and Catholics is in the area of ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the Church.

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.

On these and many other issues related to authority and ecclesiology, the way forward is not to smudge over deep differences that remain between the two traditions but rather to acknowledge them openly and to continue to struggle over them together in prayer and in fresh engagement with the Scriptures.