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The Christian Church As the Godly Polity: The Doctrine of the Church in the Commentary on Isaiah
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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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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 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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Sri Lanka – a divided Church in a divided polity: the brokerage of a struggling institution
Contemporary South Asia, 2012In different fields of academia today there is renewed interest in the relationship between religion and politics. However, this literature often focuses on beliefs such as extremism and nationalism at the expense of historically contextualized discussion about the organization and practices associated with religion.
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