Sentences with word «ecclesiology»

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.

Right now I'm focused more on ecclesiology than soteriology.

Second, as Weigel has made clear, the sacramental basis of Catholic ecclesiology in no way abrogates the need for ongoing conversion.

In an essay on «Baptists and Church - State Issues in the Twentieth Century,» in the December 1987 American Baptist an issue he coedited, he gave fellow Baptists a well - deserved scolding for having forgotten their own contributions to separation of church and state and for the «serious erosion of ecclesiology which afflicts them....

This may seem like a small point to stress so frequently, but its implications for ecclesiology are vast.

As the opponents of Marcion pointed out, right reading has as much, or more, to do with ecclesiology and confession as with method and virtuosity.

Hopefully, the participatory communio ecclesiology of Vatican II documents will become more evident, instead of a pyramidal structure; otherwise, the Church will have difficulty communicating credibly in a collaborative, mediated world.

These papers, essays and talks deal primarily with the Indian Church's mission and Indian ecclesiology in relation to two contemporary Indian realities, namely religious and ideological pluralism and the peoples» movements against the present pattern of development under globalisation.

It is not found in preconciliar ecclesiology whose key words were «jurisdiction» and «obedience.»

In this period it was realized that it is not enough to attempt to solve the problems of ecclesiology by adding «mission'to the classical mark of the church.

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.

Sister Florence's ecclesiology does not end there: She weaves confused ideas of private conscience and the conscience of the Church with the roles of laity, religious, and clerics to almost suggest that the truth of faith and morals is reached as a result of consensus, not because the truth is the truth:

My interests (and blogging habits) trend toward the practical aspects of a much more embodied anthropology than is generally acceptable, a hermeneutic that takes its cue from the biblical authors themselves, and the continuing reformation of evangelical ecclesiology.

I wrote: This could be one of the reasons for why pastors ** don't ** 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.

And that covenantal theme permits a new ecclesiology.

God retains his sovereign freedom to call «No People» his people and a church, even while those with better ecclesiologies say they are not a church.

The overall conclusion here is that, despite efforts at eirenicism (notably at the Council of Florence, 1438 - 1439) the increasing clarity with which the West affirmed the monarchical nature of Church authority and the East its synodical character created an impasse from which (attempts in modern ecclesiology to synthesise the two concepts notwithstanding) there is no obvious means of exit.

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

The only confessionally polemical essay in Christian Dogmatics is Michael Horton's chapter on the Church, in which Reformed ecclesiology is portrayed as a via media between Catholicism and the Radical Reformation.

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.

All of us who are decent shepherds know that not only do we need some help but good New Testament ecclesiology says that it is the whole flock that takes care of one another.

I am maybe not comfortable with «ecclesiology = christology» either.

As a Catholic, Reno undoubtedly has a high ecclesiology.

I find that this category, made central in the christological reflection of Beardslee and Cobb, easily lends itself to further elaboration under the theological model of sacrament and to an extension of that model into ecclesiology and sacramentology.

I don't understand how you can say you're not setting up boundaries, when — as far as I can see — a large minority of your cartoons criticise mainstream ecclesiology?

Some tension between these diverse ecclesiologies continues as a result of Council compromises.

A healthier body of Christ will find relief in its excretion of evangelicalism while ingesting a historic Trinitarian - based ecclesiology, taking shape in a visible organism that gathers to worship and serves the other, since its God so loved the world.

If The Last Temptation of Christ calls us to a deeper Christology and A Place on Earth to a deeper ecclesiology, The Poisonwood Bible compels us toward a deeper missiology, a fuller understanding of what it means to proclaim the good news of Jesus throughout the whole earth.

He taught ecclesiology at Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland.

Although ecclesiology interests me, such a book is not on my radar.

Douglass's essay best addresses the need for a historical ecclesiology and, I think, points us in the right direction.

What is the mission of the church as the Body of Christ in cooperating with divine salvation in addressing the human condition (i.e., what ecclesiology is to be affirmed in light of answers given to the first two questions)?

Is the silver lining of this moment that we might finally trade in our consumption - aligned ecclesiology for a prophetic voice of communal living?

It was recognized that the Church needed to develop a dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

But these religious organizations, large and small, are conglomerates of individuals defined by subjective experience, not historic, orthodox, and even biblical ecclesiology.

The First Letter of Peter perhaps best exemplifies such an exilic ecclesiology, although certainly Paul's letters and Jesus» life point to similar visions of the church's mission.