Sentences with phrase «ecclesiology by»

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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.

«my doctrines of ecclesiology, eschatology, angelology, and a few others are being undermined by the weight of exegesis.»

The conference was marked by a confused ecclesiology and an unsettling misunderstanding of individual conscience and the conscience safeguarded by the Church.

Although this recognition of «extraterritorial grace,» so to speak, is another feature of his thought that so remarkably anticipated Vatican II, I don't think it is sufficiently appreciated by Newman scholars, who tend to focus, for understandable reasons, on his ecclesiology and religious epistemology.

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

The opening essay by Jenson and the closing essay by Gunther Gassmann set the whole discussion within an ecclesiology of communio.

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

She regularly makes her case for staying together by appealing to a high ecclesiology.

By infusing her feminism with an identifiably Anglican set of concerns (patristics and ecclesiology, for example), Coakley points the way for black Baptist feminists or Pentecostal feminists to do work that elevates their own traditions.

Then an explicit and crucial piece of ecclesiology is inserted into the text, based on a vivid Gospel image well developed by the Fathers: «the wondrous sacrament of the whole Church» emerges from the crucified Lord's pierced side.

Theological interpretation of scripture (when it is not burdened by large - scale hermeneutical theory or an inflated ecclesiology); historical theology (especially when animated by astonishment at the gifts which the Spirit has given to the saints through the great thinkers of the past); systematics (when it sets aside anxieties about relevance or plausibility and gives itself to the task of loving description of the gospel).

Ecclesiology tended to adopt a business - management model informed by organizational development.

(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.

As a result, several ecclesiologies exist side by side in Council documents; this has made subsequent application of Council teaching somewhat complicated and even contentious.

One possible new form for the discipline would represent pastoral care and counseling as oriented by ecclesiology, concerned for elucidating the structure and dynamic of human being - in - the - world by means of plurality of methods of inquiry, and especially informed by the rapidly proliferating literature, experimental and theoretical, on the human life cycle.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.

The chapter is stimulating, especially in its presentation of a covenantal conception of the Church, but unfortunately it is marred by a misrepresentation of Catholic ecclesiology.

Vatican II by no means rejected the image of Body of Christ, or Mystical Body, but it subordinated all the images, including «People of God,» to the theological concept of the Church as sacrament, which Karl Rahner called the Grundidee of Vatican II's ecclesiology.

Our class was intrigued by the curtailment of Marian piety that seemed to mark the Second Vatican Council, which, in a famously narrow vote, subordinated Mary to ecclesiology.

In this space twenty years ago Fr Holloway wrote concerning a paper given by the then Cardinal Ratzinger on «The Ecclesiology of Vatican II»:

At Vatican II there was heated debate on whether to prepare a separate document on Mary, but by a close vote the decision was made to treat Mary in the context of ecclesiology.

Salt, Leaven, and Light: The Community Called Church by T. Howland Sanks Crossroad, 251 pages, $ 21.95 A professor at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley proffers a «liberating» ecclesiology of the «consciousness» of the Church as «ourselves» and our service to the world.