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Trends in missional ecclesiology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
Missional ecclesiology emerged as one of the significant trends in mission studies and ecumenical discussion in the last couple of years. What were these trends in missional ecclesiology?
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt
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Μαρτυρια [witness] in John 1�4: Towards an emerging, missional ecclesiology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011
Theological investigation of the μαρτυρια[witness] lexeme in John 1 4 contributes significantly towards an understanding of an emerging, missional ecclesiology.
Guillaume H. Smit
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Church, mission and ethics. Being church with integrity [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
This article is an exercise in Practical Ecclesiology. The author reflects on church, mission and ethics from historical, hermeneutical and strategic perspectives.
Wim Dreyer
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The shaping and formation of a missional ecclesiology of township congregations in the Mangaung Metro Municipality during COVID-19

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caught most organisations, institutions and leaders off-guard, including church leaders. This was not any different in the congregations in the townships of the Mangaung Metro Municipality.
Eugene Baron, Khamadi J. Pali
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Mongolian Migrants in a Korean Missional Church:

Ecclesial Futures, 2023
Ever since Lesslie Newbigin’s missional ecclesiology was introduced to South Korean churches in 2000, Korean scholars and pastors have been reaching beyond church growth theory to explore alternative and practical models. Missional ecclesiology led them
Seon-Yi Lee
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Digital ecclesiology and Africa’s digital natives: prospects and challenges

Acta Theologica, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised important issues for the church. Churches have grappled with ministering to their congregants in light of the changes in physical gatherings over the past two years.
K.M. Ndereba
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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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The missional church structure and the priesthood of all believers (Ephesians 4:7�16) in the light of the inward and outward function of the church

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
The missional church is a new consciousness which has been raised for the missionary sending of the church in the West to be a witness for the Kingdom of God in its own context. The missional church has returned mission to the centre of ecclesiology.
Timothy A. van Aarde
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From proto-missional to mega-church: A critique of ecclesial ‘growth’ in Korea

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
In the last couple of decades, the Korean church experienced a loss of credibility as well as a decrease in membership. The premise of this contribution is that the mega-church phenomenon in Korea contributed to this state of affairs.
Yongsoo Lee, Wim A. Dreyer
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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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