Sentences with phrase «for ecclesiology»

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

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The ecclesiology implicit in what Moore commends is a familiar one — even, arguably, a historical one for many Protestants.

The best interpreters of the Baptist tradition have always recognized how devastating the attenuation of this principle has been for Baptist 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.

The problem, however, is that after World War 11 a Party of fundamentalists again adopted the evangelical label to express a «neo-evangeliical» agenda that included an intellectual apologetic for the theological articulation of classical Protestantism, a repudiation of fundamentalist separatism in favor of a more inclusive ecclesiology, and a renewed social agenda.

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.

The Anglican Communion no longer made any sort of coherent sense in terms of its ecclesiology, and although day - to - day life in the parish still had all its consolations, the bigger picture for Anglo - Catholics was, to put it mildly, exasperating.

The prophet will not allow us to use faith as a point of departure for taking our journey through life or constructing our morality, ecclesiology, or politics.

In a recent essay, I explore how communication interactivity is a metaphor for a more dialogic «communio» ecclesiology (Plude 1994).

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.

For according to Catholic ecclesiology the fundamental constitution of the Church is of divine right and hence immutable.

The moral theology that I was taught and that for some years I myself taught reflected the immigrant Catholic community Kennedy described as well as the ecclesiology that nourished it.

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.

Using the same conceptual equipment for the delineation of christology, ecclesiology, and sacramentology fosters an intimate theological organicness, «an overarching unity» (MC 68).

I'm not sure what counts for «mainstream ecclesiology» as there seems to much diversity throughout the Christian tradition both East and West.

In the context of Catholic ecclesiology, for the pope to say, before a viewing audience of millions, that abuse cases were «sometimes very badly handled» was a dressing down, although not as severe as some had hoped for.

As for Matthew Levering's fears of a «twofold ecclesiology» if we embrace a special identity for Messianic Jews in the Church, he should read what John Paul II had to say about the twofold composition of the Church, that is, the East and the West.

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.

They add, «Women are calling for the strengthening of the community of women and men in a way that will lead to fundamentally new understanding of 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.

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....

Ecclesiology — If God is not violent, then what does this mean for the church's place in the world, especially regarding war and patriotism?

Beyond modeling the ecclesiology of Pentecost, and the early church experiment of creating a new Christ - centered community of Jews and Gentiles, diversity is essential for spiritual formation in our generation.

It would never vote for any radical amendment of the World Council of Churches Constitution nor would it be prepared to accept any change in the World Council of Churches ecclesiology as declared in the well - known Toronto Statement.

In Reformed Protestantism, it served as an architectonic principle for reading the Bible, shaped ecclesiology and sacramental theology, and contributed to the development of new forms of political organization.

The way to a true ecclesiology must be indirect, for the church is meant to be not an end in itself but the servant of God's mission to the world.13

, I feel increasingly that ecclesiology is one of the most difficult subjects for present - day Christians to sort out.

For the sake of clarity this can be broken into three periods: the situation prior to the Second Vatican Council and the teaching of chapter VIII of Lumen Gentium; the ecclesiological developments immediately following the Vatican II; and finally the rediscovery of the Marian profile of the Church, in particular as expressed in the ecclesiology of the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.

The second source of opposition, predictably, was the Council for Ecumenism, who were still clinging to the unreal fantasy - despite women - priests and what that issue revealed about Anglican ecclesiology - of Anglican - Catholic unity.

I'm focusing a lot on ecclesiology right now too, so maybe we should put it off for a while.

Some of his good friends, as well as his critics, have chided him for a number of years for spending too much time on structural problems of the church and internal issues of ecclesiology; I would now predict a broadening out of various issues of religion and culture.

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 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?

I am thankful for the invitation to inaugurate the Consultation on the Quest for Human Community in the context of India's religious pluralism and its implication for Indian ecclesiology.

Sarah Bessey writes at www.sarahbessey.com, where she has become an accidental grassroots voice for postmodern and emerging women in the Church on issues from mothering to politics and theology to ecclesiology.

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