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The Being of Churches: Neo-Congregational Polity
2023What is a church? Are denominations churches? Who has the authority to ordain ministers of the Gospel? How do we determine what a church gathering should look like? These are questions of “polity”,” or the principles and foundations for the organisation and conduct of a church.
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The Ecumenical Potential of Church Polity
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2015This article is a reflection on Norman Doe's book Christian Law: contemporary principles (2013) from a Protestant and Continental perspective. Against the background of the self-evident impact of ecumenical progress in terms of church polity, it explores the relation between ecumenism and church polity from the opposite perspective: can the academic ...
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The polity of the United and Uniting Churches
2020This chapter explores one aspect of the experiences of united and uniting churches: finding common principles of church law that can support unification processes. It starts with a discussion on this family of churches itself. It presents some telling examples from inter-confessional unions. Diversity is key to these churches.
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Boekbespreking: Church Polity, Mission and Unity
NTKR Tijdschrift voor Recht en Religie, 2020openaire +1 more source
African Political Systems and African Church Polity
Practical Anthropology, 1957openaire +1 more source