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A missiological reflection on African ecclesiology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011
The 21st century challenges African Protestant missiologists to push the boundaries of African Protestant ecclesiology beyond the current status quo by isolating the crucial issues, mapping out the challenges and identifying past and current traps ...
Kalemba Mwambazambi
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Ecclesiology and the Challenge of Ecclesiological Failure

Journal of Moral Theology, 2023
In the wake of the abuse crisis, “scandal” clings to the Catholic Church with a dispiriting viscosity. The contrast between the present pall over the Catholic Church and an ecclesial community enthusiastically committed to the “missionary option” (Evangelii Gaudium, no. 27) that Pope Francis promotes, raises questions for the work of ecclesiology.
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Analytic Theology, Model Pluralism, and Progress

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 559-574, November 2025.
Abstract In recent discussions of methodology in analytic theology, attention has been paid to the use of model‐building—providing simplified accounts of doctrines, or clusters of doctrines, that merely approximate to the truth of the matter—as a practice that enables analytic theologians to carry out their work whilst respecting the mystery ...
Harvey Cawdron
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The priesthood of believers: The forgotten legacy of the reformation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This contribution revisits the priesthood of believers. It is placed within the current discourse on relevant ecclesiologies and ecclesial praxis for 21st-century reformed churches.
Wim A. Dreyer
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What has Nicaea to do with Canterbury? Creeds, Councils, Tradition and the Fathers in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 525-549, October 2025.
Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
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The Teaching of Pope Francis About Synodality in the Context of Contemporary Theological and Ecumenical Reflection

Collectanea Theologica, 2021
The article deals with the ecclesiology of the local Church and synodality. Both topics have been present in Catholic theology since the time of the Second Vatican Council, which laid the foundation for the ecclesiology of the local/particular Church ...
Janusz Bujak
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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Becoming transdisciplinary theologians: Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Cilliers and Constantine Stanislavski

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
Firstly, I discuss deferent descriptions of transdisciplinary research and argue that Wentzel van Huyssteen’s postfoundationalist description of epistemology provides a progenitive epistemology for a variety of transdisciplinary engagements. Secondly, I
Gys Loubser
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Understanding Christianity in the history of African religion: An engagement with theological and anthropological perspectives in the pursuit of interdisciplinary dialogue

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014
There is ample ground and good motives for interdisciplinary engagement between theology and the new anthropology of Christianity. Theologians can learn much about the character of the church in all its plurality from the often insightful descriptions ...
Retief M�ller
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Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco‐Theology

Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 83-89, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco ...
Hilla Lahtinen
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