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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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In the Age of the Post-Ecclesiality (The Emergence of Post-Ecclesiological Modernity)
Forum Theologicum SardicenseArchim. Grigorios D. Papathomas, In the Age of the Post-Ecclesiality (The Emergence of Post-Ecclesiological Modernity). Since the Crusades, the three major Christian denominations—Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians—have developed conceptions
Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas
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Baptism as ordination to the priesthood [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского институтаThis article examines the issue of the priestly ministry of the laity. The text is divided into two major parts. The first one introduces the concept of the “royal priesthood” of christians, emphasizes its importance for a balanced doctrine of the Church,
Viktor V. Alexandrov
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The Body of Christ and the Ecumenical Potential of Eucharistic Ecclesiology [PDF]
Ecclesiology, 2010 There are various theories as to the origin of St Paul's image of the Church as the body of Christ, but it seems to have a particular link with his experience on the road to Damascus. The image has a stark realism and is to be understood in terms of the Hebrew concept of the body as the whole person, not in terms of the Greek idea of the human being as
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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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A Normative Model for God-Inspired Action: The New Textbook on Pastoral Theology in the Context of the 20th-Century Russian Tradition of Pastoral Theology [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThis article is devoted to an analysis of the textbook Pastoral Theology (2021), edited by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), in the context of the development of the Russian pastoral-theological tradition of the 20th century.
Kirill V. Aleksin
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Followership in British Christian churches: A comparative study
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 273-306, Winter 2024.Abstract Emerging research on followership has overwhelmingly been focused on for‐profit organizations. This research investigates four British congregations from different Christian denominations to explore how differing contexts shape the understanding of followership in nonprofit organizations.
Krystin Zigan +2 more
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Eucharistic ecclesiology in the theological thought of Nikolay Afanasiev
, 2020 U teološkoj misli ruskog pravoslavnog teologa Nikolaja Nikolaeviča Afanasieva (1893.-1966.) dolazi do izražaja na poseban način euharistijska ekleziologija po čemu je on ostao naročito zapažen kao teolog.
Erk, Robert
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The Nicene Creed, the Church, and Christian Mission
International Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 311-323, November 2024.Abstract This article critically examines the significance of the Nicene Creed for mission within the evolving missional context of 2025, particularly in Southern Africa. In an era defined by the globalized nature of mission, the church is no longer viewed as the sender but as the one being sent, reflecting the missio Dei framework.
Johannes J. Knoetze
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When The Church Is Most Truly Itself : the Eucharistic Ecclesiology of Rowan Williams
, 2020 This dissertation argues that Rowan Williams’s theology centers the eucharistic communion that motivates both a synodal communion of diverse people and a missiological communion that engages a wounded world.
Melton, J. K
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