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God's servant working for your own good: Notes from modern South Africa on Calvin's commentary on Romans 13: 1-7 and the state

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1998
This article aims at demonstrating that Calvin's grasp of the message of Romans 13 in its reference to the state is highly relevant for the present South Africa.
P. J. Strauss
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The Biblical Background of εκκλησία and its Later Application in the Orthodox Ecclesiology [PDF]

Вестник 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

Koers : 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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TRINITY EMERGENT-ECCLESIOLOGY : SEBUAH TAWARAN EKLESIOLOGI KONTEKSTUAL ERA PASCAPANDEMI COVID-19

Manna 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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Happy? A critical analysis of salvation in Ellen Charry that portrays human flourishing as healing, beauty and pleasure

Verbum 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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Unshackling the Church

HTS 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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Public Theology as Mediation: Navigating the Dutch Protestant Church's Public Calling in a Hypermediated World☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores Christianity's role in society through public theology, particularly in relation to the public calling of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). It advocates for reflecting on the dichotomy of church/world through the lens of divine mediation, challenging traditional dualisms and emphasizing a ‘soft difference ...
Rachèl Blokhuis‐Koopman
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The 'reformation' of counselling

In 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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„Nowe znamiona” Kościoła według papieża Franciszka

Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2023
The article is devoted to selected elements of the ecclesiology of Pope Francis. The author notices numerous ecclesiological threads that allow to collect and systematize the papal thoughts about the Church.
Przemysław Artemiuk
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The Public Character of Church in the Digital Age☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of digital technology in recent decades has led to a rapid change of communication and interaction within society and its public dimensions. As this shift in the technological landscape raises theological questions about the appropriate ecclesial use of digital technology, it also touches upon fundamental questions about the church's ...
Benedikt Levin Heymann
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