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The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church: The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
The social context of church members spawns different ecclesial imaginations of the nature of the church. Those different ecclesial imaginations often function within one particular church.
Eugene Baron, Moses Maponya
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Wittgenstein versus Turing on the nature of Church's thesis.

open access: yesNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1987
The paper examines Wittgenstein's attack on the mechanist terms in which Turing had interpreted his computability results. One of the main Wittgenstein's objections was that the philosophical strand in Turing's paper ``On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem'' [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser.
S. Shanker
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Towards possible foundations for systematic orthodox sacramentology [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021
The article presents an attempt to define the reasons for absence of unified orthodox sacramental doctrine and therefor suggests possible foundations for building up one.
David Gzgzyan
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BEYOND THE VIRUS: There cannot be a pandemic without the State [PDF]

open access: yesAmbiente & Sociedade, 2020
Abstract: This paper starts with the acknowledgment of the importance of the State as an order-ing principle for the experience of the pandemic. Such a statement implies two complementary movements - although these will not be exhausted in the following ...
Rodrigo Toniol
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Faith in a New Party: The Involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 2020 Election Campaign

open access: yesPolitics, Religion & Ideology, 2022
The intensity and nature of ties between the Church and political parties was covered by a rich literature. However, we know relatively little about why the Church would support a newly emerged political party formed in a competitive space, in which ...
Sergiu Gherghina, Sergiu Mișcoiu
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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on church ministries in Africa: A literature analysis focusing on South Africa

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article argues that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which emerged in 2019, has had a negative impact on all institutions and spheres of life, including churches.
V. Magezi
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Nature’s contributions to people from church forests in a fragmented tropical landscape in southern Ethiopia

open access: yes, 2021
Despite expanding interest in nature's contributions to people (NCP) studies, understanding of sacred natural sites’ contributions to human society and the restoration of fragmented landscapes remains relatively limited. This study examines the diversity
M. Sahle, O. Saito, Travis W. Reynolds
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Unsafe spaces? An ecclesiological evaluation and response to recent controversial practices in some South African neo-Pentecostal churches

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
From a communal perspective of the church, this article analyses critically the controversial practices reported in some South African neo-Pentecostal (SANP) churches, such as feeding congregants with grass.
Collium Banda
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How to make the best Ganjang Gejang: The Missional Church Movement in Korea

open access: yesEcclesial Futures, 2023
In Korean Christianity, interest in missional church has almost exploded in the past 15 years, with two main streams of ideas. One emphasizes that a local church should reflect the missionary nature of the Triune God in a series of activities such as ...
Seung-hyun Chung
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The Biblical Background of εκκλησία and its Later Application in the Orthodox Ecclesiology [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2019
The author compares two types of Orthodox ecclesiology. The first one is the eucharistic/liturgical ecclesiology based on the biblical (Semitic) understanding of the Church as God’s people, gathered around Christ and called to proclaim the coming Kingdom
Petros Vassiliadis
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