Sentences with phrase «ecclesiology which»

But while the legal situation lasts, can we develop an ecclesiology which can invite to the Lord's Table of the church as congregation of faith, those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as decisive for their lives and are prepared to enter the worshipping congregation and not the communally organized body of Christians?

Nonetheless, the prayer's theology unquestionably reflects the reconciliatory ecclesiology which the great Church Father elaborated during his early fifth century polemical exchanges with the schismatic Donatist community of North Africa.

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....

Not exact matches

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.

Evangelicalism's inherent flaw itself» its focus upon a book, the Bible, instead of Christ» leads to a weak Christology which results in deficient (or absent) ecclesiology.

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.

Christian Zionism is grounded in a reductionist ecclesiology in which the state is elevated above the church.

Rather than viewing Moltmann's thought on play as developing chiefly out of a dialogue with American theology, it would be better to conclude that (1) his systematic interest in exploring the various ramifications of a theology of hope led him to investigate ecclesiology, which he found playful, and (2) his desire to counteract the seriousness of student revolutionaries, both in Germany and in America, led him into a consideration of play as an antidote.

Only from there does this ecclesiology arrive at the social organization of this holy community of the people of God, an organization which is certainly necessary and conforming to the will of Christ, but nevertheless secondary.

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.

The emphasis of Vatican II is on the Church as sacrament, which, he says, is of «foundational importance» to the ecclesiology of the council, appearing four times in Lumen Gentium and six times in other documents of the council.

The Christological confession and its concomitant ecclesiology (Church order) reflects the political economy of God, which is the reverse of the Roman imperial order.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

Wright focues on covenant and ecclesiology, which admittedly we are often prone to ignore, but he goes overboard and denies imputational righteousness.

I understand the new work on ecclesiology and ethics which the World Council of Churches has launched to be a way to find new ethical principles to interpret the very nature and being of the Church.

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).

What has been said makes no claim to have underlined all those factors of devotion to the Church which are contained in the schema on the Church and which on the one hand are dogmatically enduring features of ecclesiology and on the other are likely to stand out particularly in future devotion to the Church.

The ecclesiology on which I am working concerns Chinese, Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants within the horizon of a crumbling of modernity that brings Christians closer to premodernity than they've been in perhaps 300 years, and closer to the situation of the first centuries than they've been in more than a millennium and a half.

On this score, Christopher Wells is more attuned to my concerns, when he notes that the U.S. Anglican — Roman Catholic Consultation's recent statement on «Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment» properly called on each Church to «share» in the moral struggles of the other, rather than to use them as clubs with which to beat the other.

Augustine's writings against the Donatists and Pelagians helped to cement in the West a vision of the Church in which sinners in need of ongoing repair are welcomed, and the trajectories of Augustinian ecclesiology continue to challenge all forms of sectarianism....

That Robert Benne wonders («The Neo-Augustinian Temptation,» March) why Stanley Hauerwas and friends write so glowingly about «ecclesial realities» is likely due to Mr. Benne's deficient grasp of ecclesiology, which he characterizes as «that formerly unexciting branch of systematic theology.»

Mr. Benne must have neglected his lessons in church history, as he seems unaware that the catholic tradition of ecclesiology, which is quite enthusiastic about ecclesial life, has always resisted the elitism prominent in schismatic renderings of the Church.

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

A particular consequence of such an objective approach to the Church, which characterises Rahner's ecclesiology, is that ecclesial life falls into the trap of masculine rationality.6

According to Henri De Lubac, the dominance of such an impersonal ecclesiology leads to the following problems in ecclesial life: a dry practice of the faith; an abstract theology which is expressed in objective rather than personalist categories; and a danger of reducing theological mysteries, as well as ecclesial relations, to the impersonal.8

The gravity with which one views the present situation will also depend on one's 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.

In 1981, not caring to quit while he was ahead, Boff published a collection of essays, Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad, 1985), which, in the original Portuguese, carried the exquisitely descriptive subtitle, Essays in Militant 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.

This hippie sounding form of ecclesiology has been tried and it does not work, And to be honest, what I've discovered is that a number of people that promote this kind of stuff do not want to be part of a organization because it demands and orders them, has structure, accountability, and sacrifice, which is something people don't like.