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Healy, Nicholas. "Some Observations on Ecclesiological Method." Toronto Journal of Theology 12, no. 1 (March 1996): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/tjt.12.1.47.
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de Roest, Henk. "The Focus Group Method in Practical Ecclesiology: Performative Effects and Ecclesiological Rationale." Ecclesial Practices 2, no. 2 (October 28, 2015): 235–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00202005.
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The author gives an analysis of the methodological advantages and disadvantages of using focus groups in practical ecclesiology. He makes a plea for including focus groups in a mixed method strategy in practical ecclesiological research, being attentive to their performative effects. He asks, if ecclesiology governs the methodological design of a practical-ecclesiological research project, should not methods that focus on conversational practices and how people build up a view out of the interaction that takes place within a group, be pulled into the heart of the research? In his reply to this question, the article gives a relational-constructionist, an ecclesiological and a theological rationale for using focus groups.
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Hawksley, Theodora. "Metaphor and Method in Concrete Ecclesiologies." Scottish Journal of Theology 66, no. 4 (October 11, 2013): 431–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930613000239.
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AbstractThe past twenty-five years have seen a widespread turn to the concrete in theology, and an increased awareness of the importance of practices, believing communities and material culture for both Christian faith itself, and theological engagement with it. In ecclesiology, this turn to the concrete has manifested itself in the rise of concrete approaches to ecclesiology. These have developed over the past fifteen years or so, as ecclesiologists have integrated theological and social-scientific perspectives on the church, to create both general methodological studies, and smaller scale ‘ecclesiological ethnographies’ of particular church communities.This article critically explores some of the key methodological moves of the emerging discipline of concrete ecclesiology. In the first part of the article, I argue that concrete ecclesiologies display two characteristic methodological tendencies. First, they exhibit a tendency to define their approach as concrete and realistic in contrast to twentieth-century doctrinal approaches to ecclesiology, which they perceive as unhelpfully idealising and abstract. Second, they tend to express the task of ecclesiological ethnography as one of balancing the claims of two descriptive languages, theology and social science, with regard to a single object, the church. The underlying metaphor here is borrowed from christology: just as theological language about Christ's divine and human nature must be kept in balance, so doctrinal and social perspectives on the church must be kept in balance to avoid ‘ecclesiological Nestorianism’.In the second part of the article, I argue that these two methodological tendencies result in caricatured understandings of theology and ethnography as functional opposites. Theology tends to be regarded as an inherently abstracting and idealising influence in ecclesiology, while ethnography tends to be regarded as a means of straightforwardly accessing the ‘real’ church. This in turn creates a problematically thermostatic understanding of the relationship between theological and ethnographic insights in ecclesiology, casting them as mutually regulating and opposite influences. The article closes by proposing a potentially more fruitful alternative model for integrating theology and ethnography, by exploring the similarities between the ways in which the two disciplines understand and relate to their respective objects of study.
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Flanagan, Brian P. "Jewish-Christian Communion and its Ecclesiological Implications." Ecclesiology 8, no. 3 (2012): 302–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455316-00803004.
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This article addresses the ecclesiological significance of Jewish-Christian relations. Given the development of a non-supersessionist theology of God’s relation to the Jewish people, it asks whether the language of communion might complement the more common language of covenant in developing a Christian theology of the current relations between Jews and Christian. Drawing upon the theology of Jean-Marie Roger Tillard, communion in shared faith, shared hope, and shared mission are raised as possible foundations for this imperfect or incomplete communion. Such a move has implications for both Jewish-Christian relations and dialogue, as well as for method in ecclesiology.
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Mulder, Sjoerd. "Practical Ecclesiology for a Pilgrim Church." Ecclesiology 14, no. 2 (May 4, 2018): 164–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01402005.
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In recent years, several theologians have argued that ecclesiology can benefit from the method of ethnography, which would make it less systematic and less rigid. This argument can be found, for example, in Nicholas M. Healy’s Church, World and the Christian Life. This article analyses how Healy views ethnography as a possible ecclesiological method, and to what extent he prefers this method over other methods. While Healy suggests that ethnography might be helpful for ecclesiology in general, it will be claimed that his argument in fact assumes and advances a specific pilgrim ecclesiology and a postmodern epistemology. Furthermore, his attempt to push ecclesiology in a more ethnographic direction is weakened by a misinterpretation of older, systematic, so-called ‘blueprint’ ecclesiologies. The article concludes by arguing that, in the secular Western context, ethnography can indeed be a useful ecclesiological tool, as long as it is more explicit about its own theological position than Healy is.
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Flanagan, Brian P. "The Limits of Ecclesial Metaphors in Systematic Ecclesiology." Horizons 35, no. 1 (2008): 32–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900004965.
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ABSTRACTThis article looks at two major metaphors used in contemporary ecclesiology, the church as “the People of God” and as “the Bride of Christ,” which have functioned in some of the polarizing debates within the Catholic Church in North America. It then suggests some methodological reasons why reliance upon metaphors in ecclesiology, either through the balancing of different metaphors or the promotion of a dominant metaphor, is inadequate to the task of understanding the church systematically. It then suggests some avenues for future ecclesiological method that may help to understand the church better and so to respond better to contemporary ecclesiological debates.
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Clifton, Shane. "Pentecostal Ecclesiology: A Methodological Proposal for A Diverse Movement." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15, no. 2 (2007): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966736907076339.
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AbstractThis paper is stimulated by the need to develop an ecclesiological method that is capable of describing and analysing the diverse self-understandings that characterize global Pentecostalism (or any Christian Church). It begins by observing the limitations of idealist approaches to ecclesiology, and instead proposes a concrete ecclesiological method. Concrete ecclesiology will include the narrative of particular Churches and movements, describe the explicit and implicit self-understanding that accompanies this narrative, and assess ecclesial transitions. Since the Church is a human and divine community, analysis will incorporate theological categories and the human sciences. Consequently, the paper considers how the ecclesiologist might appropriate the multifaceted discipline of sociology. The goal is an ecclesiology that is not reduced only to ideal categories, but that is capable of analysing the complex reality of indigenous Pentecostal Churches.
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Buskirk, Gregory P. Van. "AN OCCUPIED CHURCH?: READING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT ECCLESIOLOGICALLY IN CONVERSATION WITH NEW MONASTICS." QUAERENS: Journal of Theology and Christianity Studies 3, no. 1 (June 17, 2021): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.46362/quaerens.v3i1.32.
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The church needs to challenge itself about its identity, constitution, and mission, because out of necessity this involves the world and the events that unfold in it. Thus, sociological, political, and economic issues have ecclesiological components and consequences that are practically tautological, including the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The question thus moves from whether the Church is called to critical reflection on OWS to how that critical reflection should occur. The purpose of this article is to point out the specific practice of the OWS movement – the “sign” – to be considered through an ecclesiological lens. The method used is from an ecclesiological lens with a new monastic. The results of this research are firstly, the church must actively and responsibly inculcate non-violent practices, communitarian economy, and embody space and place, while at the same time joining forces with non-ecclesiastical organizations that support these practices. similar. Second, by whom - and by whom - the Church (as a very different polis) must always point beyond itself to what is its foundation and fulfillment. As long as the Church faithfully responds to this call, the Kingdom will be in our midst.
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Pietrzak, Andrzej. "The Via Ascendens Method and its Significance for Ecclesiological Studies. A Latin American Case Study." Roczniki Teologiczne 63, no. 9 (2016): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rt.2016.63.9-6.
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Studebaker, Steven. "The Pathos of Theology as a Pneumatological Derivative or a Poiemata of the Spirit? A Review Essay of Reinhard Hütter's Pneumatological and Ecclesiological Vision of Theology." Pneuma 32, no. 2 (2010): 269–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007410x509155.
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AbstractReinhard Hütter is a leading theologian who has made important contributions to ecclesiology, pneumatology, and Christian rationality, but his most fundamental one is to the nature of theology and theological method. What makes his work of particular interest to Pentecostals is its attempt to give theology a pneumatological and ecclesiological ground. He suggests that the pathos of theology is doctrina and core church practices; theology receives its character and content from church doctrine and practices. Although successful in respect to his ecclesiological program, his proposal does not give theology a direct pneumatological ground and pathos. Nevertheless, his notion that theology receives its pathos from church doctrine and practices can be adapted to suggest a pneumatological pathos of Christian experience and theology. The result is a proposal that the Holy Spirit conditions the pathos of Christian experience and theology, which provides a theological and explicitly a pneumatological pathos not only for Pentecostal experience and theology but also for the role of Pentecostal experience in developing a uniquely "orthopathic" ecumenical contribution to Christian theology.
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Kantyka, Przemysław Jan. "Ten years of Ordinariates for Anglicans – a few reflections on the new ecclesiological model." Studia Oecumenica 19 (December 23, 2019): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25167/so.1184.
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The article describes the Ordinariates for Anglicans from the ecclesiological point of view. The publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus created a new situation in the interconfessional relations and in the search for the unity of the Church. Firstly the Author explains what are the Ordinariates for Anglicans and what solutions contains the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. In the second point of the article we find an analysis of an ecclesiological model created by the constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. While not being the return to the past method of gaining the unity of the Church by partial unions (i.e. so called “uniatism” or “unionism”) the Ordinariates offer to the conversing Anglicans the possibility of upkeeping their liturgical tradition. The Ordinariates also enjoy a large scale of independence in the frame of the Catholic Church. Alongside the bright spells there are also some shadows. The Author points at the major ecclesiological weakness of the construction called “Ordinariate”. The liturgical tradition of Anglicanism transferred to the Ordinariates is, in fact, deprived of its natural theological background, which is Anglican. That is why the solution offered by the Ordinariates one of the Anglican theologians called “the shortened version of Anglicanism”. The last point of the article is consecrated to the depiction of first Anglican reactions to the situation introduced by the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. The most promising initiative is the establishment of so called “Anglican Communion Covenant”, which is designated to consolidate the Communion from inside, also by preventing the provinces from taking unilateral decisions leading to the breaks in the whole of the Anglican World.
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Oduor, Peter Lee Ochieng. "Inculturation Methodology as the Medium towards the Formulation and Establishment of an African Ecclesiology of Ubuntu." East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 3, no. 2 (July 29, 2021): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajtcr.3.2.369.
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The emergence of ecclesiology scholarship in recent theological discourse has exposed the various approaches that ecclesiology has been studied as a distinctive discipline. The traditional ecclesiological approach has prioritized the scholarship of ecclesiology from the perspective of specific denominational orders. There has also been an approach of ecclesiology that revolves around the perspective of some renowned theologians on the basis of their affiliation to their respective church organizations. The most recent approach has been the global ecclesiology that prioritizes the concept of contextualization while looking at ecclesiological discourse from distinct sociocultural-geographical contexts. Three geographical regions hold a wealth of significance by virtue of the global trajectory of Christianity towards the global South: Asia, Africa and Latin America. African ecclesiology plays a critical role in this arrangement and is a major contributor to global ecclesiology. In this understanding, it is imperative for the pursuit of an African ecclesiology to appreciate the concept of Ubuntu as a definitive expression of the African identity. The problem is the methodology of ecclesiological scholarship in Africa that ignores the significance Ubuntu has and resultantly births a foreign ecclesiology to the indigenous African population. It is important to acknowledge that the approach of ecclesiology that will thrive in Africa is nothing less than an Ubuntu ecclesiology that prioritizes community and relationships reminiscent of our traditional African portrait as foundational pillars for her establishment. The formulation and establishment of an African friendly ecclesiology of Ubuntu can only be facilitated by the usage of the inculturation method of theology. This methodology accords due consideration to the African heritage with regard to their culture, spirituality and religious background emphasizing the values from traditional Africa that are helpful to Christian life and condemning those practices that are non-Christian in nature.
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Wengert, Timothy J. "Caspar Cruciger Sr.'s 1546 “Enarratio” on John's Gospel: An Experiment in Ecclesiological Exegesis." Church History 61, no. 1 (March 1992): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168003.
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Only months after Luther's death in 1546, a colleague, Caspar Cruciger, Sr., published his magnum opus, an 879-page commentary on the Gospel of John, In Evangelium Iohannis Apostoli Enarratio. Cruciger's Enarratio provides an excellent angle from which scholars may examine an important shift in Wittenberg's exegesis and theology during the crucial decade of the 1540s. To be sure, this work has few of the characteristics of other treatments of the fourth Gospel produced near the same time. The exposition of the four Gospels by Cologne's Franciscan theologian, von Konigstein, underwent far more printings. The works on John by Calvin and Bullinger have attracted more attention in our own day. However, when set into the context of continued sharp debate over ecclesiology, Cruciger's commentary on John provides a critical reshaping of Philip Melanchthon's exegetical method to meet the continuing challenge of defining the church in line with an emerging Lutheran orthodoxy and against Roman Catholicism. Unlike later Protestant commentaries, which often roll ponderously from one unrelated locus in theology to the next, Cruciger's work, though massive, focuses almost singlemindedly on the doctrine of the church. The commentary represents part of Wittenberg's response to failed discussions over the nature of the church and its authority which began in 1520, nearly halted in 1541 at the Colloquy of Regensburg which Cruciger attended, and collapsed with the outbreak of hostilities during the Smalcald War of 1547. It also demonstrates the farreaching effect of Philip Melanchthon's exegetical method in shaping that response among his own students.
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Ideström, Jonas. "In Dialogue with the Gospel." Ecclesial Practices 1, no. 1 (2014): 72–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00101004.
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The aim of this article is to reflect on an approach and method for practical and prophetic ecclesiology. The article describes the process of planning and using a method at a conference for Church of Sweden suburban parishes. By returning to the conference and the planning process, the account presents the various steps of the broader approach, spells out ecclesiological considerations and analyses results of the conference. Gordon Lathrop’s concept, dialogue of holy things, is used to argue for the relevance of using a method based on Gospel narratives in empirical ecclesiology. The results from the conference show that the method could contribute to constructive and critical reflections on theological challenges facing Church of Sweden. The approach is discussed in relation to Theological Action Research and theories developed by Geir Afdal concerning studies of social practices.
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Picanussa, Branckly Egbert. "PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN KRISTIANI." Voice of Wesley: Jurnal Ilmiah Musik dan Agama 3, no. 1 (March 4, 2020): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.36972/jvow.v3i1.30.
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Some Christian education experts have expressed their views on how the church should develop a curriculum to educate church members to achieve maturity in the Christian faith. This article purpose to develop a curriculum for Christian education in Church ministry. The method used is a literature study on the opinions of D. CampbellWyckoff and Maria Harris. The characteristics of Wyckoff and Harris's opinions and various responses in "imaginative dialogue", as well as modifications of the Christian education Foundations, Principles andPractices schemes of Robert W. Pazmino became a model to develop a Christian education curriculum in church life. The development of the Christian education curriculum begins with setting the goal of implementing Christian education for a group in the Christian community. Furthermore, curriculum development requires thecontribution of various development foundations, including biblical, theological, philosophical, educational, scientific and technological, historical, socio-cultural, ecclesiological and psychological.
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Wen, Clement Yung. "Book Review: Uppsala School—Studies in Ecclesiological Construction: Sune Fahlgren and Jonas Ideström (eds), Ecclesiology in the Trenches: Theory and Method under Construction." Expository Times 128, no. 7 (April 2017): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524616689019c.
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Houtepen, Anton. "Porto Alegre 2006: Called to be the One Church: Ecumenism beyond its Crisis?" Exchange 36, no. 1 (2007): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254307x159434.
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AbstractFrom 9-23 February 2006 the World Council of Churches held its 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brasil with the theme God, in your grace, transform the world. It gathered in an atmosphere of crisis in the ecumenical movement, caused by global political and religious developments, post-modern thinking on the value of plurality and difference and by the slow reception of ecumenical agreements. The Assembly, though, became a sign of hope beyond the ecumenical crisis. Its reflections and proposals on Globalisation and economic injustice, on Christian identity and religious plurality and on Church Unity and the Mission of the Church demonstrate a matured ecumenical and ecclesiological awareness, strengthened by a new method of decision-making by consensus. The document Called to be the one Church might be seen as the constitutional basis for a reconfiguration of the ecumenical movement and as a refinement of the Toronto Declaration of 1950. It formulates a matrix of catholicity and of a legitimate diversity of church forms within an essential convergence about its structures of continuity and mission.
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Sutoyo, Daniel. "New Apostolic Reformation dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Eklesiologi." DUNAMIS: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani 4, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 264–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.30648/dun.v4i2.289.
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Abstract. This article aimed to describe the New Apostolic Reformation movement impact in an ecclesiological view. The New Apostolic Reformation movement, also known as the fourth wave of pentecostalism, in its theology looks more radical than the previous wave movement. This movement is a non-denominational and has a big impact to the churches, especially those of Pentecostal-Charismatic. The method used in this study was descriptive analytic using literature studies relating to the movement. Through this study it could be concluded that the New Apostolic Reformation movement has a major influence on church growth because it was believed to offer reformation in the practical ministry of the church.Abstrak. Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk memberikan gambaran pengaruh gerakan New Apostolic Reformation secara eklesiologis. Gerakan New Apostolic Reformation, disebut juga sebagai gelombang keempat pentakostalisme, dalam pokok-pokok ajarannya terlihat lebih radikal dibandingkan dengan gerakan pada gelombang sebelumnya. Gerakan ini bersifat non denominasi dan memberikan pengaruh besar terhadap gereja-gereja, terutama yang beraliran Pentakosta-Karismatik. Metode yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah deskriptif analitik dengan menggunakan kajian kepustakaan yang berkaitan dengan gerakan tersebut. Melalui kajian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa gerakan New Apostolic Reformation memberikan pengaruh besar terhadap pertumbuhan gereja karena disebut menawarkan reformasi dalam pelayanan praktis gereja.
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Watkins, Clare. "Practising Ecclesiology: From Product to Process." Ecclesial Practices 2, no. 1 (May 8, 2015): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201009.
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This paper positions theological action research methods of ecclesiology within current debates around ecclesiology and ethnography, and within theological reflections on postmodern culture. In relation to the first, it responds to Nicholas Healy’s proposal of ethnographic methods, and his more recent questionings of this approach, before, secondly, engaging with Lieven Boeve’s account of postmodern theology as a non-correlative attentiveness to dialogue and interruption. In each case the nature of the difficulties for practical ecclesiological approaches are rooted in the modern moves away from integrative, pre-modern approaches, towards more rationalised, systematised accounts of reality. Such modern accounts are seen as failing the incarnational theological instincts of Christian theology generally, and the concrete theological concerns of ecclesiology in particular. Theological Action Research offers a response to these contemporary challenges, envisioning ecclesiology as a discursive practice, which finds its identity in process and pedagogy, rather than in the construction of an ecclesiological ‘product,’ or model.
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Kobetіak, Andriy. "ECCLESIOLOGICAL CONDITIONALITY OF THE AUTOCEPHALOUS SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSAL ORTHODOXY." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 15, no. 1 (2020): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2020.15.3.
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The article deals with one of the fundamental problems of the whole corps of the church law – autocephalous principle of the existence of the church. This problem drives the researchers' attention to the very essence of the existence of orthodoxy in general. The preaching of Christ and the Gospel leave no direct pointers of the internal organization of the church. The apostles make only the subtle hints to the administrative arrangement of the church in general. Their mission preaching and spreading the faith to all nations, however, they did not envisage any other administrative system than autocephaly. Church dogmas and canons, which regulate all aspects of the life of the Church, were formed during the heyday of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire. However, the significant politicization and dependence of the church on imperial power led to the proclamation of a number of canons that contradicted the original nature of the church. This also applies to autocephaly. Under the pressure of the state authorities, the primacy of honor together with ancient Rome is shared by the capital's Constantinople chair. The theory of the "Five Patriarchates" is be- ing formed, which are called to rule the world Orthodoxy. During the Ecumenical Councils, autocephaly was transformed from a basic and natural state of the Church existence into a certain privilege and a subject of political bargaining in the international arena.Despite the long process of forming the canonical and legal corps of Orthodoxy, there is no clear regulation of the procedure for proclaiming a new autocephalous church today. This led to significant misunderstandings and the termination of Eucharistic communion by a number of Local Churches after granting autocephalous status to the Ukrainian Church. Theological disputes over the very procedure of signing the Tomos still take place today. Besides theoretical justification, the internal church structure also has a practical value for the process of bestowing autocephaly on the new national Local Churches. This is relevant due to the struggle of a number of modern countries for the church independence and the Ecumenical recognition. Starting since the Byzantine Empire times, the state power has constantly imposed its own church management principle and methods, which often was going against traditions and canonical norms. Orthodox ecclesiology offers its own approach to church-administrative management. It is proved that merely the autocephalous system is the only acceptable option of the existence of the Universal Orthodoxy.
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Watkins, Clare, and Bridget Shepherd. "The Challenge of ‘Fresh Expressions’ to Ecclesiology." Ecclesial Practices 1, no. 1 (2014): 92–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00101005.
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This dual authored paper reports and reflects on theological action research carried out with an instance of the Fresh Expressions church, Messy Church. Locating the work in the wider ecclesiological debates surrounding Fresh Expressions, the authors describe the research methods used, before going on to develop ecclesiological reflection in a conversational form. As such, the paper is an example of the ‘four voices’ approach to theological action research developed by the ARCS team (Action research - Church and Society, Heythrop College, University of London). As both practitioners and academics reflect together a number of significant insights emerge about the ways in which Messy Church might be understood as church: the possibility of being a ‘church to an (as yet) unknown God’; the understanding of being a searching church, a community of journey; and the vision of an expansive, centred ecclesiology, which cares less about boundaries and definitions, and seeks more to affirm a variety of ecclesial relations. These themes, variously discussed by the different parties, offer an account of both practical and systematic theological learning through attentiveness to contemporary practices of church.
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Azcuy, Virginia Raquel. "MUJERES LAICAS Y EJERCICIOS ESPIRITUALES. ESTUDIO DE CASO: PRIMERA COMUNIDAD DE VIDA CRISTIANA DE ADULTOS EN CHILE (1975-2015). UNA LECTURA DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO." Perspectiva Teológica 49, no. 2 (August 31, 2017): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.20911/21768757v49n2p297/2017.
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RESUMEN: Este artículo busca socializar algunos resultados de una investigación teológica, realizada con la mediación del método cualitativo y el enfoque del estudio de caso, que se propuso abordar el testimonio de un conjunto de mujeres laicas pertenecientes a la primera Comunidad de Vida Cristiana de adultos en Chile o vinculadas con ellas por medio de los Ejercicios Espirituales. La investigación ha sido realizada en el marco del Centro Teológico Manuel Larraín – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/Universidad Alberto Hurtado, como parte del programa Teología de los signos de los tiempos. Este texto busca profundizar la relación entre algunos contenidos de verdad propuestos por el Concilio Vaticano II –la Iglesia, la renovación de la vida religiosa, los laicos y el servicio a los pobres– y la vida de la Iglesia, en concreto, de una iglesia local. La lectura incluye una perspectiva de género por ser las mujeres un sujeto eclesiológico emergente en el posconcilio y contribuye a una exploración de la recepción conciliar desde este foco de atención. En el marco de la creciente colaboración entre jesuitas y laicos en la Compañía de Jesús en las últimas décadas, se propone una reflexión teológica a partir de historias de vida en relación con la experiencia y la transmisión de la espiritualidad de los Ejercicios. Los relatos elegidos muestran la interrelación existente entre el acompañamiento en los Ejercicios Espirituales por parte de jesuitas y laicos o laicas, las Comunidades de Vida Cristiana (CVX), el Centro de Espiritualidad Ignaciana (CEI) y diversas obras apostólicas. SUMMARY: This article seeks to facilitate some results of a theological research that was proposed to address the witness of laywomen belonging to the first Adult Christian Life Community in Chile and other women linked with them through Spiritual Exercises. This research was carried out through qualitative method and case study approach. It has been undertaken as part of the program Theology of the signs of the times, within the framework of Manuel Larraín Theological Center-Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Alberto Hurtado University. This text looks for a deepening between the relationship of certain elements of truth proposed by the Second Vatican Council –Church, the renewal of religious life, laity and the service to the poor– and the life of the Church, particularly the local Church. The reading includes a gender perspective because women can be considered as an emerging ecclesiological subject in the post-Vatican II and it helps to explore the reception of this council from this point of view. It is proposed a theological reflection, based on life histories in relation to the experience and the transmission of the spirituality of the Exercises, within the framework of the growing collaboration between Jesuits and laity in the Society of Jesus in the last decades. The chosen narratives show the interrelation between the spiritual accompaniment offered by Jesuits and laity in the Spiritual Exercises, the Christian Life Communities (CLC), the Center of Ignatian Spirituality (CEI) and various apostolic works.
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Синицкая, Мария Алексеевна. "The Study of the Boundaries of Christian Unity in the Writings of Fr. Georges Florovsky and Fr. Vasily Zenkovsky." Вопросы богословия, no. 1(3) (June 15, 2020): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31802/2658-7491-2020-1-3-183-191.
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Статья посвящена истории экклезиологических поисков русских ученых периода расцвета отечественной богословской мысли протоиереев Георгия Флоровского и Василия Зеньковского. Вновь актуальны вопросы о единстве и единственности церкви, экклезиологическом статусе христианских конфессий, возможности и путях обретения христианского единства. В духе святоотеческого учения вопросы решаются названными богословами через призму сакраментологии, как ключевого аспекта христианского вероучения. В статье, как и в трудах протоиереев Василия и Георгия нет готовых ответов на сложные вопросы, но есть образцы высокой культуры богословской мысли в сложной и актуальной области церковной науки. Знакомство с методикой и методологией современного богословия обязательно для студентов и всех, интересующихся богословскими основаниями современной церковной жизни. The article is devoted to the history of the ecclesiological searches of Archpriests Georges Florovsky and Vasily Zenkovsky, Russian scholars of «the golden age» of national theological thought. The questions concerning the unity and singularity of the Church, the ecclesiological status of Christian denominations, the possibility and ways of gaining Christian unity become relevant again. In the spirit of the patristic teaching, the theologians resolve these issues through the prism of sacramentology as the key aspect of Christianity. In the article, as in the works of Zenkovsky and Florovsky, there are no ready-to-use answers to difficult questions, but there are examples of a high culture of theological thought in the complex and currently important field of Church Science. Exposure to the methods and methodology of modern theology is mandatory for students and everyone who is interested in the theological foundations of modern church life.
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Williams, John A. "Ecclesial Reconstruction, Theological Conservation." Ecclesiology 11, no. 3 (October 16, 2015): 289–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01103003.
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Recent thinking and writing about the regeneration of the churches in Britain is almost always devoted to ways and means: patterns of ministry, styles of worship, methods of communication and models of mission. These contemporary approaches envisage a renewal of the churches that seemingly leaves theology untouched. This article mounts a critique of this strategy of ‘ecclesial reconstruction’ plus ‘theological conservation’ as short-sighted and overly narrow in focus. The situation contrasts with the ‘radical theology’ of the 1960s, in which it was assumed that ecclesial and theological reconstruction go together. The article asks why things are so different today. It considers a possible sociological account of this state of affairs, but argues against it, drawing on sociological and ecclesiological factors to build a case instead for the vital importance of hospitality towards critical and exploratory theological thinking in all initiatives for the reconstruction and renewal of the churches.
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Colberg, Kristin. "Ecclesiology today and its potential to serve a missionary church." Missiology: An International Review 46, no. 1 (January 2018): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829617739842.
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This article engages the theme of the 2017 meeting of the American Society of Missiology: “Missiology’s Dialogue Partners: Practitioners and Scholars Conversing about the Future of Mission.” It seeks to contribute to that conversation by providing a survey of the discipline of ecclesiology with an eye towards how it might learn from the field of mission and how it might inform it. This exploration begins by defining some of the goals, methods, and boundaries of the field of ecclesiology. It then considers three critical issues at the forefront of ecclesiological work today: 1) questions emanating from the ecumenical sphere; 2) shifting demographics within Christianity and corresponding calls for new ecclesial structures, and 3) the necessity of a more robust engagement between ecclesiology and the social sciences. The concluding section offers some reflections about how the current state of ecclesiology might provide glimpses of the future of ecclesiology and what light it might shine on the future of missiology.
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MoChridhe, Race. "Defining Digital Theology: Barthian Reflections on the Role of Open Access and Electronic Publishing in the Theological Toolkit." Atla Summary of Proceedings, January 21, 2020, 243–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/proceedings.2019.1557.
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As a student member of the Atla Press Coordinating Committee, the presenter has spent the past eight months evaluating, developing, and implementing digital tools to support the Press' initiatives in open access scholarship. This session frames those efforts in the context of theology's status as a "minor participant" (Hutchings 2015) in the digital humanities as well as the emergence of a trans-disciplinary domain increasingly identified as “digital theology” (Phillips 2014). Drawing on Anderson’s (2018) analysis of theology’s disciplinary distance from the main body of digital humanities work, the presenter outlines a case for the distinctive primacy of digital publishing tools and open access commitments in digital theology, as compared with the broader suite of research tools and methods that constitute the “cultural capital” (Schroeder 2016) of digital humanities as generally understood. Particular attention is paid in this regard to Karl Barth’s vision of a “proclamation-centered” (Hector, 2015) theological method as the basis for an ecclesiological critique of closed access publication models.
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Henry, Desmond, and Cornel J. P. Niemandt. "Baptist identity and mission in a rainbow nation: Distilling imperatives from mixed-methods research within the Baptist Union of Southern Africa (1994–2012)." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71, no. 2 (February 6, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i2.2026.
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The Baptist Union of Southern Africa’s (hereafter BUSA) future is conspicuous unless it understands the context within which it ministers in our ‘rainbow nation’. As a union of churches, BUSA faces significant challenges that have been highlighted through a mixed methods research approach. Through many months of data collection at the Baptist Union archives, an online survey and informal interviews spanning many parts of South Africa, the researcher practically demonstrates the importance of the cumulative results for the future of BUSA. This article highlights, in overview fashion, a few of the major challenges that need to be urgently addressed in the light of BUSA’s historic ecclesiological presuppositions that have their roots in the missional ministry of Hugo Gutshe who saw each of his Baptist congregants as missionary, and expanded the influence of BUSA in South Africa.
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Van Rooy, J. A. "Die bydrae en relevansie van die missiologlese besinning in die GKSA." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 29, no. 1/2 (June 25, 1995). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids.v29i1/2.1540.
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Taking into account the small number of missiologists in the Reformed Churches in South Africa, the contribution of this small denomination towards the development of the theology of mission is remarkable. Apart from many publications of a popular nature, almost a hundred scientific dissertations, books or articles have appeared during the last thirty years, covering the fields of inter alia, the biblical foundations of mission and the theology of mission. These fields can be divided into five sub-themes, to wit: the history of missiology, reflection on the nature of mission and evangelism, the dogmatic basis of mission, the nature of salvation and ecclesiological aspects of mission. Additional fields covered include reflection on the practice of mission (which includes mission strategy and means and methods of mission), the socio-economical and cultural dimensions of mission, the theory of communication, syncretism, different religions and history of mission.
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Masengwe, Gift, and Francisca H. Chimhanda. "Postmodernism, identity and mission continuity in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe." Verbum et Ecclesia 41, no. 1 (December 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v41i1.1906.
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The Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) is a Christian denomination with its own internal substance and purpose in life. However, postmodernist changes have affected the Church’s operation with religious, ethical and spiritual implications. The COCZ engaged in conference centre construction (at Somabhula, Gweru South, Zimbabwe), constitution making (adopted 2014) and further ministerial formation through university education. The study was conducted among the Lukuluba people of Somabhula using qualitative research methods. Activities among the Lukuluba people need to be done in critical review of the church’s ideological duty, discovery of the Lukuluba people’s religious consciousness and development of a contextual pedagogy that appeals to the people’s religious spirituality. The study found the need to review the modes of Lukuluba cultic practices of the Shona Mwari religion for purposes of attaining mission continuity within the community and being mindful of the need to continue in the founding identity of the COCZ.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Identity and mission continuity of the Church of Christ in contemporary Zimbabwean society relates to human creation, baptismal dignity and vocation as systematic theology has ecclesiological, soteriological, incarnational, existential, ecological, biblical, inculturational and missiological implications.