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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Ecclesiology."”.
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Network church: a Pentecostal ecclesiology shaped by mission
This thesis develops a pentecostal ecclesiology using the structure of networks that leads to a fresh approach to contextualisation. It addresses the neglect in pentecostal scholarship of church structures beyond the congregation and of critical approaches to contextualisation. The pentecostal …
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T. T. Eaton and the Politicization of Baptist Ecclesiology
Chapter 1 is the introduction, which proposes that Thomas Treadwell Eaton achieved great influence in the Southern Baptist Convention and utilized that influence to effect political change in the relationship between Southern Baptist churches and the denomination. Chapter 2 traces the influences of …
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Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop
… thesis states that at the pinnacle of Cyprianic ecclesiology is the belief that the bishop, as the divine head of an ecclesiastical community, was to guard both the faithful and the damaged until the return of their Lord.</p>
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TOWARDS A POINTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: ZIZEK AND BADIOU IN THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION
… upon here to construct an outline of a “pointal ecclesiology,” by which is meant the collective fidelity of the Spirit community to a truth, point by point, in a world. While wholehearted appropriation of their work is not theologically unproblematic, an engagement with their thought proves to be …
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The Catholic Apostolic Church: its history, ecclesiology, liturgy and eschatology
… can be corrected. The chapter on "ecclesiology" deals, for the first time in depth, with the Catholic Apostolic understanding of the nature of man and the ministries deemed necessary for his spiritual welfare, and distinguishes between the different types of prophetic witness. The …
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Jubilee Magazine and the Development of a Vatican II Ecclesiology
… this study shows what aspects of Jubilee's ecclesiology lived on to be embodied in the Second Vatican Council's documents, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes.
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The Principle of Subsidiarity and Catholic Ecclesiology: Implications for the Laity
… States. Chapter Three attends to questions of ecclesiology and authority. The author argues that an examination of the nature of both magisterial and lay authority reveal expanded opportunities for laypersons to exercise substantial authority within the church, the theological foundations of …
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Priesthood in a ministering community: Towards an ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
Within the Anglican Communion a Ministering Community is where all the people of God, the baptised in a community of faith that gathers for worship each week, are the ministers. The people are the ministers by virtue of their baptism; each one being gifted by the Holy Spirit for the mission and …
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God, Land, Identity: Divine Fluidity and a Spatial Ecclesiology in West Africa
… space on which the structures of the present ecclesiology is anchored. The result is a peripheral inculturation, a consumer ecclesiology, always seeking to solve its local pastoral problems in accordance with alien incongruous codes and canons, and a church that continues to look up to the …
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
… of the relationship of mid-Tudor evangelical ecclesiology and liturgical reform presented in this thesis allows us to understand the Edwardian Church on its own terms. It challenges some long-held assumptions about the figures and events of the period, and their combined effect on later …
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: The Relationship between Ecclesiology and Soteriology for Cyprian of Carthage
Cyprian wrote his treatise De ecclesiae catholicae unitate to discuss the relationship between the church and salvation. To counter the Novatian schism in Rome, Cyprian virtually equated the spiritual and visible church. Schismatics necessarily placed themselves outside the spiritual church and …
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Church and secondary societies in Korean ecclesiology and the Christocentric perspective of Karl Barth.
My purpose is to critically map out the relationship between Church and society in the current Korean context in light of three models: difference, identity, and harmony, and to propose a better relationship between Church and society in the Korean context from Karl Barth's Christocentric vision of …
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The Concept of the Poor in the Context of the Ecclesiology of Liberation Theology
… as articulated in the context of the movement's ecclesiology.</p> <p>Chapter I traces the historical and theological context for the emergence of liberation theology. The focus is placed first on the ecclesiological models through which the Roman Catholic Church expressed its life and mission in …
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A critique of the ecclesiology, missiology and sociology of the Mission-shaped Church report
… synodical legislation. It traces the missiology, ecclesiology and sociology of the initial report and their subsequently developed over the last seven years. The thesis ascertains how well this missiology and ecclesiology reflects or adapts traditional and contemporary Anglican missiology and …
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A Critical Analysis of the Influence of the Separatists on the Ecclesiology of Early Congregationalism
… goal of this paper is to examine the history and ecclesiology of the early Congregationalist leaders John Cotton (1586-1652), Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) and Phillip Nye (1595-1672) to answer the question: how much did they owe in the area of ecclesiology to the Separatists Robert Browne (1550? …
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