Sentences with phrase «ecclesiological categories»

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.»

In preparation for a missionary conference in Willingen (1 952), the Dutch missiologist J. C. Hoekendijk criticised the church - centred orientation of missionary groups which led them to define «the whole surrounding world in ecclesiological categories... The world has almost ceased to be the world and is now conceived as a sort of ecclesiastical training - ground» (Stransky, DEM 1991:688).