Sentences with phrase «with ecclesiology»

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Answering the question about the Church's relationship to the civil order, at any moment in history, requires us to begin with ecclesiology and to remember that the Church's first obligation is to be the Church: the communio that witnesses to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and the in - breaking of the kingdom of God, here and now.

As the opponents of Marcion pointed out, right reading has as much, or more, to do with ecclesiology and confession as with method and virtuosity.

Not exact matches

This Taylor seems strongly in tune with the metaphysics of Milbank's book The Suspended Middle, as well as in favor of a universalist, sacramental, sexually permissive — and Anglican — ecclesiology.

With communities usually called evangelical, Kasper notes, there is agreement on «fundamental dogmatic questions» along with continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and minisWith communities usually called evangelical, Kasper notes, there is agreement on «fundamental dogmatic questions» along with continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and miniswith continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and ministry.

I agree in principle with Hutchens, Kleist, and Bischoff that the Achilles» heel of evangelicalism has been its ecclesiology» or more precisely its «ecclesial atomism,» in Ephraim Radner's phrase.

God retains his sovereign freedom to call «No People» his people and a church, even while those with better ecclesiologies say they are not a church.

But left unqualified it would leave us with something of a «congregationalist» ecclesiology, and moreover, it is not sufficient to distinguish the «Benedict Option» as Benedictine.

Hauerwas's reading of Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology, essentially a «free church» one, resonates with my own, but is not entirely faithful to all the data.

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.

None of this is intrinsic to the Missa Normativa, but accretions and excesses have so often become identified with it in practice that it has fuelled the false perception, on both sides of the progressive / traditional divide, that the ancient (Extraordinary) and modern (Ordinary) forms of the Roman Rite embody two opposing ecclesiologies.

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

I am maybe not comfortable with «ecclesiology = christology» either.

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.

With spellbinding oratory, he preached a rigid, exclusive Baptist ecclesiology.

Since he believes justification is a matter of covenant and ecclesiology, and not Kingdom entrance, make a brief comment on how he still manages to link justification with final entrance in some indirect way (I know that he does).

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.

We should celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with fanfare because Mariology is ecclesiology — every special grace given to Mary is an eschatological promise to the Church.

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.

This is precisely what Christian ecclesiology is; «unity in Christ with diversity.»

According to Alan J. Bailyes, there were five theological issues between the ecumenical and evangelical positions: Church and world, the nature of conversion, Gospel and culture, Christology, and hermeneutics.3 Bailyes explains that a sound and solid ecclesiology has long been a weak link in the evangelical chain of theology, «coming a poor second or cven third behind its soteriology with its emphasis upon the individual and his / her relationship with God.

From the Federal Council of Churches to the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), they have involved themselves in ecumenical relationships; with a restructure of polity during the past decade, they have amplified the connectional dimension of a traditionally congregational ecclesiology.

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.

What is the mission of the church as the Body of Christ in cooperating with divine salvation in addressing the human condition (i.e., what ecclesiology is to be affirmed in light of answers given to the first two questions)?

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

These papers, essays and talks deal primarily with the Indian Church's mission and Indian ecclesiology in relation to two contemporary Indian realities, namely religious and ideological pluralism and the peoples» movements against the present pattern of development under globalisation.

But they characterize a subversive ecclesiology in deep conflict with our conventions.

They deal primarily with the Indian Church's mission and Indian ecclesiology in relation to two contemporary Indian realities, namely religious and ideological pluralism and the peoples» movements against the present pattern of development under globalisation.

In fact, my biggest concern with dispensationalism is its misuse of Scripture in the service of seriously flawed forms of Christology and ecclesiology.

How do we evaluate the case of Karanjia's conversion to faith in Christ and his fellowship with believers in Christ without conversion from Zoroastrian to the Christian community from the point of the theology of evangelism and ecclesiology?

(21) They must be hospitable to the whole family of God, enabling the family members in their diversity to address with integrity the whole range of issues that divide us, issues of Christology and ecclesiology, issues of culture, race, and gender, issues of social justice and the integrity of creation.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author intends to present the portrait of a man of extraordinary accomplishment in the fields of religion, politics, linguistics and ecclesiology, but also as an ordinary man whose letters and reported conversations reveal his struggle with the ordinary issues of a person of his time.

On these and many other issues related to authority and ecclesiology, the way forward is not to smudge over deep differences that remain between the two traditions but rather to acknowledge them openly and to continue to struggle over them together in prayer and in fresh engagement with the Scriptures.

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