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A Critical Examination of the Ecclesiology of John Nelson Darby [PDF]

This thesis examines the ecclesiology, or doctrine of the church, of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), who was one of the leading and most prominent members of the Plymouth Brethren in the nineteenth century.
Clarke, Matthew Austin
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Efesiërs 1:14 en 1:22, 23 as ’n skriftuurlike maksimum-minimum vir die ekklesiologie

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
Ephesians 1:14 and 1:22, 23 as a scriptural maximum-minimum for ecclesiology. Against the background of a membership decline in mainstream churches in South Africa and abroad, and conscious of the theological debate in which a missional ecclesiology is ...
Barry J. Van Wyk
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Towards redeeming marriage custom from ‘triangular captivity’: The missional dilemma of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Marriage in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ) is under siege. This scenario was bequeathed by the British imperialists. This siege is evident because the ecclesiastical theology of marriage in the MCZ is fastened on both African culture and the ...
Martin Mujinga
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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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Book Review: VI. Ecclesiology: Ecclesiology [PDF]

Baptist Review and Expositor, 1906
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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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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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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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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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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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