Sentences with phrase «real ecclesiology»

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.

Not exact matches

Evangelicalism possesses no ecclesiology and that absence is the real issue, not the conflicts between its subdivisions.

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.