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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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John Calvin and the Reformed tradition on the jurisdiction of the church

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2001
John Calvin’s view on the power of jurisdiction in the church, as he writes about it in the Institutes, is expounded in this article. Firstly, attention is given to the spiritual authority of the church, followed by an exposition of the power of the ...
P. Coertzen
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Happy? A critical analysis of salvation in Ellen Charry that portrays human flourishing as healing, beauty and pleasure

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2015
Happiness and human flourishing has increasingly, especially in American and German theological writing, become a focus in systematic theological research on creation, salvation and eschatology.
Nadia Marais
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TRINITY EMERGENT-ECCLESIOLOGY : SEBUAH TAWARAN EKLESIOLOGI KONTEKSTUAL ERA PASCAPANDEMI COVID-19

open access: yesManna Rafflesia, 2023
The church's identity, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, is no longer the same. During the COVID-19 era, when the church fully embraced its digital form, many ecclesiology formulations optimistically placed the church's future in the non ...
Sherly Masnidar
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Unshackling the Church

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
In whose ‘order’, ‘newness’ and ‘foundation’ is ecclesiology based in South Africa? The colonial legacy of pigmentocracy, the cultural domination and annihilation of the indigenous dispensation of black Africans, is not devoid of institutional structures
Vuyani Vellem
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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The 'reformation' of counselling

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2001
Although the Reformation took place some four hundred years ago, one area in which reformation is really needed today is the counselling of people. Since Wilhelm Wundt started the “study of the mind” in 1879, William James and Sigmund Freud followed and ...
G.A. Lotter
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The Past Requires Reconciliation

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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‘Flowing’ under the radar in a multifaceted liquid reality: The ekerk narrative

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
We live in a liquid new world driven by incessant change. Our reality is constantly shaped by new forms of non-linear individualism, which is expressed in countless factions, networks, tribes and alliances.
Stephan Joubert
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Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
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