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, 2022 Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregations ...
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 516-537, December 2023., 2023 By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing ...
Laura Michelle Rademaker
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Why Ecclesiology Cannot live by Doctrine Alone : a reply to John Webster's 'In the Society of God' [PDF]
, 2014 Peer ...
Brittain, Christopher
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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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JOINT ATTENTION AND THE IMAGO TRINITATIS
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 860-885, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article incorporates into Christian theological anthropology some recent findings of a school of scientific researchers in the fields of comparative and developmental psychology. These researchers—namely, Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, and others affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology—have advanced a
Robert Elliot
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The Kingdom of God and the Transformation of the World
International Review of Mission, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 355-369, November 2023., 2023 AbstractThe article explores how pivotal the kingdom of God has been and still is to the identity of the ecumenical movement. The discussion of the biblical vision of the kingdom, which is coming and yet is also present, offers a motif which not only forms the life of the church and gives it hope but also forms the life of the oikoumene, giving hope to
Jerry Pillay
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Church, mission and ethics. Being church with integrity
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 Use of the Term “DNA” as a Missiological Metaphor in Contemporary Church Narratives [PDF]
, 2016 Missiologists propose that the Church and mission are inseparable as the Church has its very being because there is mission, and it is the Missio Dei which constitutes the Church.
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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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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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