Sentences with phrase «sect typology»

1 am using inclusive as it is used in the church / sect typology of Ernst Troeltsch.

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In Niebuhr's memorable typology, the «Christ against culture» position is generally associated with the anabaptists, Tolstoyans, and various sects that position themselves as communal alternatives to the larger society, based of course not on ethnic distinctives but on fidelity to the gospel.

Jenkins tries to describe the situation through the lens of a «church / sect» typology he borrows from Ernst Troeltsch, but this distorts what is really going on in, for example, Brazil or China.

Even in recent years there have been new efforts to define the two, to create typologies of sects, and to discuss the evolution of sects into churches.

I am concerned with typology here and the ecstatic side of the Reformation, as manifest in the pietists and in such sects as the Diggers and Levellers belongs more nearly to the Franciscan type though it would require further analysis to support this.