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Wesleyan Trinitarian theology and pneumatology: God’s performative action

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article examines the Wesleyan Trinitarian theology and pneumatology as God’s performative actions through insight into the speech act theory. Wesley’s understanding of the Holy Spirit in the Trinitarianism, which reveals God’s salvation performance,
Anna Cho
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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 Ecclesiology of the Philokalia [PDF]

, 2012
The common assumption regarding the Philokalia is that, as a book concerned with the spiritual life of individual believers, it offers very little to help the overcoming of the evil of spiritual individualism and the formation of an ecclesiological conscience.
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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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Seekers of truth and justice : an investigation of the Accra Declaration’s ecclesiology [PDF]

, 2013
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.The original publication is available at http://ngtt.journals.ac.za/pubThis article investigates the implied ecclesiology of the Accra Declaration (WARC, 2004).
Pretorius, Helgard Meyer
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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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Gottes Haus [PDF]

, 2012
Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study seeks to examine a central figure of thought in medieval society, the "ecclesia".
Czock, Miriam
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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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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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Kgotla and communion ecclesiology: Democracy interplay

In die Skriflig
This article advances the notion that African epistemologies can be applied in the process of decolonising theology. The Setswana cultural entity known as kgotla is examined in juxtaposition with communion ecclesiology.
Kelebogile T. Resane
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