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Apostolic & prophetic : ecclesiological perspectives /
Apostolic, ecumenical and radical: these are the ecclesial characteristics highlighted by Gesa E. Thiessen while explaining her vision of the church. The author focuses on the meaning of each of these marks as well as on their intrinsic connections, an approach that leads her to delve deep into the...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. :
James Clarke,
2012, ©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover ; Title page; Contents; Introduction; PART I. Apostolicity: Past, Present, Future; 1. Ad fontes: Apostolicity in the Early Church; The Gospels, Acts, and Paul; The Early Theologians; Conclusion; 2. Apostolicity in Select Ecumenical Documents of the Anglican, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic Churches; The Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue; Facing Unity: Models, Forms and Phasesof Catholic-Lutheran Church Fellowship (1984); The Church and Justification (1993); The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: Its Structures and Ministries(2004); The Lutheran-Anglican Dialogue.
- The Meissen Common Statement (1988)Porvoo Common Statement (1992); 3. Looking Ahead: Possibilities and Challenges in Ecclesiology and Ecumenical Dialogue; Reception; Differentiated Consensus; Trilateral Agreements?; A Priori Commitment to Reception; Comparative Ecclesiology; Biblical Foundations and Church Structures; Episcopate and Apostolic Succession; The Holy Spirit and Apostolicity; Role of Bishops and Mutual Recognition of Ministry; Imperative of Bishops' Authentic Apostolic Witness; Recognition of the Papacy?; Two Steps Ahead, Three Steps Back?; Models of Church Unity.
- Women's Ordination and Gender Equality in the ChurchInner-Denominational Differences; Churches' Mutual Recognition; "Rehabilitation" of Martin Luther?; The "Normative Meaning of Factual Faith" and theApostolicity of the People of God; Conclusion; PART II. Unity, Diversity, and Ecumenical Praxis; 4. Denominations: Churches in (Post)modernity-The Lutheran Church (A Case Study); Context; From Postage Stamp to World Religion: An Initial Search for aDefinition of "Denomination"; What Constitutes the "Church"?Luther and the Augsburg Confession.
- Church, Confession, Congregation, Denomination:An Attempt to Clarify Terms in English- and German-Speaking Contexts"Protestant" Churches:Which Denominations Do They Include?; Denominationalism: Voluntarism, Tolerance, Diversity, Confusion; Denominations and Their Internal Divisions; Differences: European and North American Lutherans; The Emergence of North American Lutheran Churches asDenominations; Denomination with a Difference; Conclusion: Towards the One Body of Christ; 5. Ecumenism in Praxis: Critical Observations on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
- The History of the Week of PrayerThe Theological Foundation of Prayer for Unity; Spiritual Ecumenism; The Week of Prayer:From Challenge to "Institution" and Beyond; PART III. Towards a Radical Church; 6. A Theology of Liberation: Dorothee Sölle; Introduction; Biography; Theology, Prophecy, and Politics; Sölle's Vision of God: From Omnipotent Ruler to Co-Sufferer; Accepting the Cross-Following Christ; Mysticism and Resistance; Conclusion: Orthopraxis, Discipleship, and the Church; 7. A New Left Church? Terry Eagleton; Introduction; Why Still Bother with Socialist Ideas?