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Incarnation theology versus the sacralisation of authority

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
This article juxtaposed the theological theme of incarnation with quasi-religious invasions of public power structures and institutions in southern Africa, which has been described by the term sacralisation of authority.
Retief Muller
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Daring to Share: Multi-Denominational Congregations in the United States and Canada [PDF]

, 2018
Daring to Share: Multi-Denominational Congregations in the United States and Canada, by Sandra Beardsall, Mitzi J Budde, and William P McDonald.
Salmon, Ann J.
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Analytic Ecclesiology: The Social Ontology of the Church

The Journal of Analytic Theology, 2019
In this paper, I aim to show that analytic philosophy can contribute to the theological discussion of ecclesiology. By considering recent analytic work on social ontology, I outline how we might think of the Church as one entity, constituted by many ...
Joshua Cockayne
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Baptismal Ecclesiology

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 1-2, Page 54-63, January–April 2025.
Abstract This article discusses baptism as expressing the four‐fold relationality of life based on God, creation, neighbour, and self, as found in the second narrative of creation in the book of Genesis. Based on this understanding of baptism, baptismal ecclesiology can be defined as an understanding of the church that is primarily grounded in the ...
Antje Jackelén
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Ascension of Jesus: Drawing from the thoughts of Andries van Aarde

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article stems from the author’s dialogue with New Testament scholar Andries van Aarde about the divinity of Jesus, during which the topic of Jesus’ ascension also arose.
Chris Jones
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Leading the Assembly Is Pastoral [PDF]

, 2003
(Excerpt) I should begin, I think, by explaining a bit about what I mean by pastoral when we speak about leading the assembly. We got a phone call once at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians from a scholar who was researching the folk music ...
Funk, Virgil C
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The Spirit as Plural Person

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.
Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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Catholicity in the Lutheran ministry [PDF]

, 1980
The second of two articles (for the first article see Consensus 5,23-28 o 79) dealing with the history and tradition of the Lutheran ministry, this article demonstrates that the centrality of the doctrine of justification, as understood by the Reformers,
Lehmann, Helmut T.
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A New Project in Systematic Theology [PDF]

, 2015
The article explores the possibility of a new collaborative venture in systematic theology based in the work of Bernard Lonergan and Robert Doran.
Doran, Robert M.
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