Sentences with word «ecclesiological»

«There is,» as the WCG report said, «a fundamental ecclesiological question» at stake: «do the churches of the communion wish to live as a communion?»

But more significant in the long run are the theological accents found in the interview, accents with important ecclesiological implications.

I have kidded some of my colleagues in ecclesiology by saying that the real ecclesiological issues today, especially those involving the teaching authority in the church, are being faced by moral theologians, particularly those working in the area of sexual morality and sexual ethics.

There is also a more recent and specific historical reason why the area of sexual ethics is both so troublesome and so entwined with ecclesiological concerns: sexual ethics was not touched by the great changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council.

Indeed, the following nine points are explications of these basic ecclesiological shifts.

Instead, my argument was that by bringing alien questions and presuppositions to their study of the Bible, dispensationalists (and many of their opponents) distort the Scriptures themselves, entirely missing the sacramental and ecclesiological dimensions of New Testament eschatology.

Its consequences for theological and ecclesiological developments are yet to be faced.

What was the turning point in this cultural and ecclesiological shift?

I (if I may interject my own experience at this point) went before the vote, since there had been a clear de facto arrogation of authority to decide on a matter over which the Pope himself hassaid he has no authority (thus unilaterally establishing an entirely new ecclesiological identity from that which Anglicanism had always claimed to possess).

I want to contribute substantially to the theological and philosophical, as well as ecclesiological conversation.

Weigel also confuses ecclesiological categories (what makes the Church) with eschatological categories (who is saved), misusing a text from St. Augustine to imply that we can now, with some probability, of living persons know who is «wheat» and who is «weed.»

My colleague Richard McBrien, in a talk to moral theologians at Notre Dame in June 1988, neatly summarized in six points Vatican II's major ecclesiological themes.

The PCUSA presses forward on deciding significant theological, moral, and ecclesiological matters without consulting other churches, including its international partners and those in the United States with which it is in «full communion.»

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely.

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

This suggests that these orders are also ecclesiological problems and that moralists and ecclesiologists must cooperate closely.

You can ignore my request to link his view of justification (which is of course covenental / ecclesiological only in his mind as mentioned above) with «final vindication» and entrance.

Anyone versed in Catholic ecclesiological and ecumenical vocabulary will be alarmed at this, since this signals something less than full stature as a Church.

Ecclesiological theory aside, however, a study of the sociology of religious institutions may indicate that the Catholic Church in America is becoming more and more like its oldline Protestant counterparts.

The next item on the agenda seemed to have more significant ecclesiological implications.

I also mean that I appreciate Quaker «silent worship» (although I prefer to call it «waiting worship»), as well as the Quaker ecclesiological emphasis on equality and reconciliation.

Indeed, he is correct, but I suspect that the ramifications extend to liturgical questions, doctrinal opinions, devotional practices, attitudes toward ecumenism, ecclesiological models, understandings of authority, and the general understanding of how Catholics are in relation to the world at large.

That such ecclesiological themes have deeply affected my own thinking and theological work should be self - evident.

I think I could make the full - blown ecclesiological case for a church of strangers.

It is truly a milestone in ecclesiological teaching.

To admit the possibility of similar cultural and ecclesiological limitations in ourselves is more difficult.

But to conclude that only cultural and ecclesiological considerations determine these approaches would be untrue.

He specifically noted «It appears, indeed, consciously orunconsciously to promote a view of sacramental and ecclesiological theology that contrasts with the intentions of the Holy See.»

For classic hermeneutics, the Hebrew bible is the basic ecclesiological textbook.

Martyn Percy of Christ's College, Cambridge, worries that Alpha presents a privatized faith and falls to acknowledge the complexity and paradoxes of the Bible, Alpha, he says, offers no «real social mandate, no prophetic witness and no serious appreciation of theology» or ecclesiological breadth and depth» (Financial Times).

In spending time with Christians from a variety of church traditions this week, I was reminded of the degree to which theological and ecclesiological diversity strengthens the Body of Christ.

The result is a nasty dynamic (ecclesiological at heart, but it turns out to be generational because it's the young that lose the political battles) in which there can be no orderly succession.

Since 1960, a radical shift in ecclesiological thinking has taken place.

A final ecclesiological problem confronting the Churches of Christ and the Christian Church concerns relations with those whom Alexander Campbell liked to refer to as «the parties» — that is, the denominations of American Christianity.

The 20th - century German theologian Erik Peterson, whose conversion from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism was the occasion for a great deal of ecclesiological soul - searching after the second World War, has had a substantive influence on theology both in Europe and in the English - speaking world....

A second ecclesiological problem being confronted is the status of the churches» mission beyond the local congregation.

The Donatists had insisted that a cleric guilty of grave ecclesiological sin - for example, of having surrendered the Scriptures to Roman officials during the Diocletian persecution - severed himself from the Church and therefore could no longer be a source of sanctity for her.

While Augustine disapproved of the ministry of notorious sinners among the clergy and attested to their legitimate degradation from the clerical state, he, nonetheless, dismissed the Donatist classification of ecclesiological sinas unscriptural.

[40] On other important aspects of Tertullian's understanding of what it meant to be in ecclesiological communion and the role of baptism, see Killian McDonnell, «Communion Ecclesiology and Baptism in the Spirit: Tertullian and the Early Church,» in Theological Studies, Vol.

In Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (2015), Allen and Swain presented «a programmatic assessment of what it means to retrieve the catholic tradition on the basis of Protestant theological and ecclesiological principles.»