Sentences with phrase «new ecclesiology»

Then, in the 1970s, came the revisionist view that Hecker, and bishops like John Ireland of St. Paul - Minneapolis, John Keane of Catholic University, and Cardinal Gibbons, were in fact exploring a new ecclesiology, a new way of thinking about the Church, that Vatican II would vindicate in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

And that covenantal theme permits a new ecclesiology.

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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.

The image of exile returns North American churches to one of the central strands of New Testament ecclesiology.

It is finding new ways, in a new situation, tentatively yet critically, to rework doctrines such as Christology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology, taking into account the new questions that have arisen.

New perhaps is the emphasis on ecclesiology.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

We do not find any one particular ecclesiology and ministry developed in the New Testament.

they are primitivists in ecclesiology: that is in their corporate life they try to express the earliest models of the church as represented in the New Testament.

New Wine: The Challenge of the Emerging Ecclesiologies to Church Renewal (Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, l994).