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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Ecclesial"”.
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Theological and Liturgical Dimensions of Ecclesial Authorization for U.S. Catholic Lay Ecclesial Ministers
… Catholic Church given the rapid increase in lay ecclesial ministers ("LEMs") and decline in ordained priests. New ecclesial relationships develop through shifts in ecclesial ministry; formalizing these new relationships, the study argues, will allow for smoother transitions in parishes and a …
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and Ecclesial Enactments of Eschatology
… pointing toward the possibility of alternative ecclesial enactments of apocalyptic theopolitics.
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Mary as Ecclesial Person: The Key to Modernity's Quest for Personhood
In this thesis I propose to look at how Mary is the model of the human person defined as being-in-relation, made for communion. Modernity prioritises the values of freedom, independence and rationality, yet what it describes is less personhood than dualistic individuality. It has recognised …
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The Role of the Holy Spirit in Leading Ecclesial Change in Luke-Acts
… foundations found in the Holy Spirit for leading ecclesial change within the text of Luke-Acts. Chapter 1 describes the purpose, goals, rationale, and research methodology for the study. Chapter 2 is a literature review that examines secular, Christian, and biblical/theological models for leading …
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Arab Protestant women in theological education: a contribution to ecclesial understanding of Christianity in the Middle East
… in TE. Despite the deeply historic and complex ecclesial character of Christianity in the region, ecclesiology is rarely given due consideration in modern history of Protestantism for the ME. In this thesis the contemporary state of APW is explored in the context of dialogue with the Eastern …
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Lay Ecclesial Ministry as Vocation: A Particular Call To Mission for Laity in the Roman Catholic Church
Lay ecclesial ministry has become an increasingly important part of the experience of ministry in the Catholic Church today. The numbers of those engaged in lay ecclesial ministry, particularly in the United States, continues to rise. Yet questions as to how, or if, to describe lay ecclesial …
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“The Steady Obedience of His Church”: The Ecclesial Spirituality of Joseph Kinghorn and the Communion Controversy, 1814–1827
… others, this dissertation uses Joseph Kinghorn’s ecclesial spirituality as a starting point to reconsider the Hall-Kinghorn communion controversy in its socio-historical and theological contexts. In particular, by connecting the published debates with neglected primary sources, this dissertation …
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John and Charles Wesleys' "Hymns on the Lord's Supper" (1745): Their Meaning for Methodist Ecclesial Identity and Ecumenical Dialogue
… are brought to bear on the question of Methodist ecclesial identity and ecumenical dialogue. The study explores the significance of the relationships derived from the synthesis of the evangelical and sacramental thrust of Methodist ecclesiology. The general categories of manifestation …
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Which Reader? Interpretive Virtue, Ecclesial Context, and Social Location in Ephraim Radner and Richard Hays's Proposals for Theological Interpretation of Scripture
… in a posture of faith and within an interpretive ecclesial context. Through a comparative analysis of the proposals for theological interpretation of Ephraim Radner and Richard B. Hays, I identify shared as well as differing emphases. I begin by providing an overview of Radner and Hays’s …
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The Domestic Church and the Post-Nuclear Family: A Theological Analysis and Critique
… that the domestic church is a sacramental and ecclesial reality although the theology is commonly espoused under the subheading of marriage and referencing a specifically nuclear form of family. The following chapter analyzes the thoughts of various theologians by approaching the topic …
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Understanding the world better than it understands itself : the theological hermeneutics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
… project of theological hermeneutics with an ecclesial focus. The project examines Bonhoeffer's life and writings with the intention of demonstrating how theological hermeneutics is at the center of his theological project and that each phase of development in his hermeneutics logically fits …
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Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, and Pastoral Implications
… Catholic Church has developed significantly the ecclesial nature of the Christian family during the past three decades. During the Second Vatican Council the council fathers developed a seed text in which they use the term "domestic Church" to connote this ecclesial dimension of Christian …
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Theological material : food and clothing, the church, and the freedom of God.
… theology, and particularly within a tradition of ecclesial-theological retrieval represented by Stanley Hauerwas. I engage Hauerwas and related discourses (the ecclesial economics of William Cavanaugh and D. Stephen Long and the agrarian theologies of Norman Wirzba and Ellen Davis) to ask how the …
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Authority, unity and truthfulness : the body of christ in the theologies of Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams with a view toward implications for free church ecclesiology.
… are arguing for the necessity of visible ecclesial unity, which immediately raises the perennial problem of the authorities by which unity is maintained. There is also a growing recognition among free church theologians of the need to recognize the authority of tradition alongside the …
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Eastern Orthodox theological and ecclesiological thought on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations in the contemporary world (1975-2008)
This study examines the distinctly ecclesial dimensions of Orthodox thinking on Islam and Muslim-Christian encounters within the context of the modern theological renewal in the Orthodox Church over the past few decades. It shows how by building on the patristic, ecclesial, and liturgical revival …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development
… Father and charging the congregation with shared ecclesial responsibilities. To demonstrate this, the study establishes the necessity of an ontological method and provides a biblical-theological canonical survey tracing the priestly trajectory from Adam's Edenic vocation to the Melchizedekian …
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Reckoning with white-flight and faith: an ethno-theological case study of racial history and evangelical memory in postwar Los Angeles
… plays into the aforementioned racially divided ecclesial reality. American Evangelicalism has largely remained segregated, which historians and social scientists have quantitatively studied. To the historic and social data, this thesis aims to add a new exploratory qualitative study, …
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Italians doing local theology: a multisite empirical inquiry in Piedmont towns with special reference to Antonio Gramsci
… articulates them. DLT is a tool available to ecclesial groups who want to learn the art of theological discussion and pursue reciprocity between their leaders and laypersons. Though not a cure-all, DLT can stimulate ecclesial groups to renew their minds, metabolize the Gospel, and acquire …
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