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Doing Ethics in an Ecclesial Context: What is Health Care Ethics\u27s Connection to an Understanding of the Catholic Church? [PDF]

, 2007
I have been asked to provide in this essay an overview of the ecclesiology of Fr. Kevin D.
Lysaught, M. Therese
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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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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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Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty

Acta Theologica
The relevancy of an ecclesiology within a context of poverty is determined by an understanding of missional ecclesiology, the context of poverty, and the interaction of leadership and congregants within a context of poverty.
M. Maritz
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From Font to Meal to Service and Unity [PDF]

, 2018
Is Eucharistic sharing, then, properly seen as the culmination or the inception of Christian initiation? This is a big question getting right to the heart of “how Baptism forms us.” I want to get at this in two distinct but related ways; (1) the rank and
Johnson, Maxwell E.
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eEcclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2016
Book Review of Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India. Darren Todd Duerksen.
Pohran, Nadya
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Calvin on slavery: Providence and social ethics in the 16th century

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2013
In this article, Calvin’s views on slavery are evaluated within the broader historical context of the practice of slavery during the late Middle Ages and the 16th century, and also in the light of various views inherited from Greek and Roman antiquity ...
Eric Kayayan
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Before the Eucharist, a Familial Morality Arises

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
While differing ecclesiologies have informed family ethics, families can be understood as having a common sacramental backbone. To demonstrate this thesis, I first look at Virgil Michel, O.S.B., who uses a Mystical Body of Christ ecclesiology to argue ...
Matthew Sherman
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Reorientation of mission and its action plans for a reformed missional ecclesiology in Africa

In die Skriflig
The quest to understand and practise the church’s missionary calling will remain a significant exercise in the church’s life of every age. This article aims to provide a reorientation of the mission and its action plans for a reformed missional ...
Thinandavha D. Mashau
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'Democracy is coming to the RSA': On democracy, theology, and futural historicity

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
This article brings the concept of democracy as an open-ended tradition in conversation with notions dealing with historicity and the future, such as democracy to come , promise , and a democratic vision .
Robert R. Vosloo
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