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| | Ecclesiology - The Christian Arsenal |
 | | Ecclesiology - Doctrine of the Church - 1 Timothy 3:15...that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. | | | Ecclesiology - Beliefs about the Church - A good church will be correct in its ecclesiology; that is, in what it believes and teaches about the church itself. | | | Ecclesiology - Doctrine of the Church - The church began on the day of Pentecost, with the coming of the Holy Spirit in its new work of sealing and permanently indwelling believers. |
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http://www.christianarsenal.com/Ecclesiology.htm
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| | What is Ecclesiology? |
| | The word Ecclesiology comes from two Greek words meaning "assembly" and "word" - combining to mean "the study of the church." The church is the assembly of believers who belong to God. | | | Answer: Ecclesiology is the study of the church. | | | Ecclesiology is crucial to understand God's purpose for believers in the world today. |
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http://www.gotquestions.org/Ecclesiology.html
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Ecclesiology Of The Constitution On The Church, Vatican II, 'Lumen Gentium', The |
| | The ecclesiology of communion began to be reduced to the theme of the relationship between the local Church and the universal Church, which in turn degenerated gradually into the problem of the division of the areas of competence between them. | | | In these chapters the intrinsic purpose once again comes to the fore: that is, all that is most essential to her existence: it is a question of holiness, of conformity to God, that there be room in the world for God, that he dwell in it and thus that the world become his "kingdom". | | | In the New Testament, however, it is not necessary to wait for the Deutero-Pauline Epistles and the Apocalypse to find the ontological priority — reaffirmed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — of the universal Church in relation to the particular Churches. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3920
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| | Orthodox Ecclesiology in Outline |
| | The triadological and Christological dimensions cannot be divorced in Orthodox ecclesiology, because the Church is the Church of the Holy Trinity insofar as She is the Church of Christ, and vice versa. | | | Hence, we must say that the Church is the Church of the Triune God as the Church of Christ. | | | The same must be said of the Protestant ecclesiologies, which connect the notion of the Church with denominationalism, and which make a distinction between the one and the many in terms of the invisible and the visible Church. |
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http://www.geocities.com/trvalentine/orthodox/dragas_eccles.html
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| | Ecclesiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ecclesiology is a branch of Christian theology that deals with the doctrines pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and with the understanding of what the "church" is: its role in salvation, its origin, its relationship to the historical Christ, its discipline, its destiny (see Eschatology) and its leadership. | | | It is, therefore, the study of the Church as a thing in itself, and of the Church's self-understanding of its mission and role. | | | Ecclesiology comes from the Greek ekklesia (ἐκκλησία), which comes into Latin as ecclesia, and which simply means a gathering or a meeting. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiology
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| | Ecclesiology in Church History |
| | Ecclesiology was not a major issue in the early church. | | | Luther believed in infant faith; God imputed faith to the infant in baptism even though the infant is not aware of it. | | | The two poles of Calvin’s ecclesiology were divine election and the local congregation. |
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http://www.theologicalstudies.citymax.com/page/page/1573129.htm
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| | Laura's Writings: ECCLESIOLOGY AS MISSIOLOGY? |
| | The church is both earthly and heavenly and I think ecclesiology from the heavenly perspective should--no, must--precede an ecclesiology from the earthly perspective. | | | I contend that ecclesiology has to do with the whole people of God, not just the church. | | | Classical missionary practice (for a non-Christian context) is to go (as Jesus did), live and learn the culture and then inculturate the gospel (missiology) and from there as people wish to be disciples of Jesus to develop an ecclesia. |
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http://lauraswritings.blogspot.com/2006/01/ecclesiology-as-missiology.html
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| | Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology - OrthodoxWiki |
| | Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology - OrthodoxWiki | | | The Orthodox-Roman Catholic Bilateral Consultation in the U.S.A. issued “An Agreed Statement On The Church” in 1974 which describes the basic premise of “communion ecclesiology”: “The Church is the communion of believers living in Jesus Christ and the Spirit with the Father. | | | In Orthodox ecclesiology, all bishops possess a fundamental equality, even if, because of practical reasons, some are given a higher position than others. |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Primacy_and_Unity_in_Orthodox_Ecclesiology
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| | Ecclesiology, Gender and Continental Anabaptists |
| | One of the consequences of this new perspective on marriage, and particularly of its subordination to the primary place of the covenant community as the centre of primary relationships, was a new attitude to divorce. | | | The church was the institution which centred on bishops and priests; the ones who enabled the sacraments, and primarily the eucharist, to happen. | | | The previous pattern of the mass, which was to some extent continued in the reformation churches, grew from an ecclesiology which saw the church as the dispenser of grace existing almost over against the pious who came to worship. |
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http://www.ibts.cz/academics/lectures/ruth1.html
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| | Ecclesiology and Ethics in 1 Corinthians, by Richard B. Hays |
| | Paul was a planter of churches (1 Cor 3:6-9), an organizer of far-flung little communities around the Mediterranean that united clusters of disparate people in the startling confession that God had raised a crucified man, Jesus, from the dead and thus initiated a new age in which the whole world was to be transformed. | | | The ethical norm, then, is not given in the form of a predetermined rule or set of rules for conduct; rather, the right action must be discerned on the basis of a christological paradigm, with a view to the need of the community and the community's identity as God's covenant people. | | | Because the continuity is metaphorical rather than "in the flesh," Paul can reject the mandate for observance of specific Torah practices such as circumcision and food laws, while retaining the claim that the community (the ekklesia) is the sphere of God's special activity and blessing, the manifestation of God's righteousness. |
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http://www.northpark.edu/sem/exauditu/papers/hays.html
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| | Gender and Ecclesiology; Issues for Contemporary Baptists |
| | In committing ourselves to this kind of ecclesiology, we have also affirmed that the church is the creation of God alone, of the triune God working in human institutions, but not limited by them. | | | I have tried to show, however, that because of their commitment to an ecclesiology which was at odds with the mainline thinking of their period, they found that not only their understanding of church but also of human existence in its most fundamental implications was also reshaped. | | | The ecclesiology which shaped them was predicated on the fact that the authority over them was not a political nor even an ecclesiastical one, but the Lord Jesus. |
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http://www.ibts.cz/academics/lectures/ruth3.html
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| | and :: ecclesiology |
| | One of the things I appreciate about the emerging church for those in the Western tradition is that Scripture is being given a context, a location, a people, a history, a tradition, etc. in a way that was lost during the height of modern epistemological project. | | | Sitting with the wise replies to the Emerging Orthodox post I am impressed again with the great wisdom which comes from engaging the Holy Tradition. | | | Part of the gift that the Orthodox tradition offers to the Roman, Protestant and especially the emerging church is a theo-praxis of an incarnational ecclesiology which renders cultural relevance irrelevant. |
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http://dwightfriesen.blog.com/ecclesiology
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| | The nature and Purpose of the Church |
| | Moreover, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, Confessing the One Faith and Church and World, sent to the churches for response and reception, are ways of keeping alive in the churches the imperative of Christ's call to visible unity and the essential characteristics of that unity. | | | In the last decade work on ecclesiology and ethics, which continued the studies on, for example, racism and the community of women and men in the Church, has contributed to the understanding of our common Christian calling in the service of humanity and creation. | | | At the same time it is recognised that in the Holy Scripture there is no systematic ecclesiology. |
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http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/faith/nature1.html
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| | A New Ecclesiology |
| | One of the most apparent shortcomings is the lack of a decisive conclusion on the nature and destiny of the people of God. | | | It is an irony that Luther named one of his writings on ecclesiology 'The Babylonian Captivity of the Church' (1520). | | | The history of 'ecclesiology' is saturated with men adding foolish regulations, personal preferences, and vain philosophy to the gospel. |
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http://www.5solas.org/media.php?id=556
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| | TallSkinnyKiwi: Deep Ecclesiology : Intro |
| | By ecclesiology, I mean the nature, life and practice of the church, in this instance, that part of the church that is growing and active in the emerging culture. | | | The term "deep ecclesiology" has begun to be adopted and used over the past 3 years and is circulating mainly among practitioners and leaders of the emerging-missional church. | | | By "emerging church" or "emerging-missional church" I refer to the new church forms that are being started as a response to effective missional work in the global emerging culture. |
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http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2005/05/deep_ecclesiolo.html
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| | This is Jordon Cooper's weblog |
| | The wikipedia article, often held to be one of the best descriptions of the emerging church has this to say about emerging ecclesiology, “Reflecting its decentralized and local nature, the emerging church does not maintain a mutually agreed-on ecclesiology, or set of beliefs defining the specific role and nature of the church. | | | Howard Snyder gave an excellent paper on Wesleyan ecclesiology, Rad Zdero presented a paper on house churches in Canada and Jared Siebert gave a paper on the emerging church (where he compared the emerging church to bus ministry) Jared created a podcast and it will be posted at the Life Cycle Project. | | | Given these very provisional circumstances the ecclesiology of the emerging church is also provisional. |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com
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| | titusonenine » Ecclesiology |
| | The truth is that we who stand in the mainstream of the faith belong here, not the cuckoos in the nest who have sought to grab control. | | | Interesting phrase, that, the contrast between the truths of faith and the resulting lacerations of communion. | | | Whenever, therefore, we perceive the Church scattered by the wiles of Satan, or torn in pieces by the cruelty of the ungodly, or disturbed by false doctrines, or tossed about by storms, let us learn to turn our eyes to this gathering of the elect. |
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http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/index.php?cat=89
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| | deep soil: cultivating ecclesiology |
| | So, top-down ecclesiology would be that the Holy Spirit speaks through the leaders of the church and is then passed on to the lay people. | | | Bottom-up ecclesiology would be that the Holy Spirit speaks through the church—not just the clergy—and that the Holy Spirit will never contradict something that is written in Scripture. | | | urban spirituality, reflections on the emerging church, postmodern church, theology and culture, ecclesiology, discipleship, following Jesus |
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http://annaaven.typepad.com
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| | Anglican Mainstream |
| | In his classic account of Anglican ecclesiology, The Gospel and the Catholic Church, Michael Ramsey makes the point that the way that the Christian Church is ordered is theologically significant because it is an outward expression of the Gospel. | | | The outward order of the Church therefore is no indifferent matter; it is on the contrary, of supreme importance since it is found to be related to the Church’s inner meaning and to the Gospel of God itself. |
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http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/lambeth_news6.asp
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| | Technorati Tag: ecclesiology |
| | Jordon Cooper: The Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church | | | The Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church by Jared Siebert :: Life Cycle Project Jared gave this paper yesterday. | | | Posts tagged Ecclesiology per day for the last 30 days. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/ecclesiology
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| | Ecclesiology - The Church |
| | Ecclesiology: The study of the Church Westminster Confession of Faith by Bob Burridge | | | The Nature of the Church An Introduction to Christian Belief: A Layman’s Guide by Greg Herrick, PhD. | | | Ecclesiology in Church History Detailed bullet-point summary of the most important theologians, dates, controversies, and councils associated with the history of Ecclesiology by Michael J. Vlach |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/church.html
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| | Theology-Ecclesiology |
| | The Holy Synod in Resistance focuses its attention especially on ecclesiology, since the dogma of the unity and uniqueness of the Church, which is ontologically identical with Orthodoxy, is threatened today by ecumenism | | | he branch of theology that primarily examines issues pertaining to the nature and essence of the Church is called Ecclesiology. | | | The heresy of ecumenism is now working counter to the Orthodox Church’s Ecclesiology. |
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http://www.synodinresistance.org/Theo_en/Ekklisiologikaen.html
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| | Subversive Influence » Blog Archive » Ecclesiology Roundup |
| | Rather, we are to ‘characterise the church as essentially a mystery, a divine self-gift, expressed and incarnated in a rich diversity of ways’. | | | Hamo has a good post on Incarnational v Attractional Mission, which is linked by Van S and linked and discussed by Justin Baeder, following up has post, From Congregation to Aggregation Ecclesiology. | | | Elsewhere lately, Si Johnston blogs on “emergen-cy ecclesiologies?” After noting that the latest meme out there is categorizing views or models of church, he writes quoting Avery Dulles, |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress?p=332
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| | Ecclesiology and Ethics Intro |
| | These texts are the reports from the three meetings in the World Council of Churches' study programme on Ecclesiology and Ethics. | | | The study was conducted jointly by Faith and Order and programme unit III (Justice, Peace and Creation), and ran from 1992 to 1996. | | | The texts have been published in book form under the title Ecclesiology and Ethics: Ecumenical Ethical Engagement, Moral Formation and the Nature of the Church, Thomas F. Best and Martin Robra, eds., Geneva, WCC Publications, ©1997. |
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http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/faith/eeintro.html
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| | The Aussie Outpost Library - Ecclesiology |
| | Here you will find links to various online resources regarding the church, etc. If you know of others not listed, please email us with the URL's, thankyou. | | | This is the Aussie Outpost's Library page for ecclesiology. |
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http://www.stormpages.com/reformer1/ecclesiology.html
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| | emerging ecclesiology reflections on the emerging church |
| | Do you want to see "Emerging Ecclesiology" continue like this, or should I just write everything I'm thinking from thoughts on life to the emerging church over at www.annaaven.com? | | | I watched the Passion on Monday afternoon, and it's taken me this long to want to talk about it. | | | If I just wanted a journal, I'd write in a little leather book (I do that too!)... |
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http://annaaven.blogspot.com
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| | Bono's Thin Ecclesiology - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | This arm's-length experience of churches leaves Bono with a paper-thin ecclesiology that measures the church's mission (or its "relevance") almost exclusively in geopolitical terms. | | | He has, after all, avoided the church since breaking with Shalom, a Watchman Nee-inspired group in Ireland, in the early 1980s. | | | Bono seems unaware of the aids relief work that has been done in Africa for years, both by missionaries and by indigenous Christians (CT, Feb. 7, 2000). |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/003/29.37.html
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| | Religious Movements in the United States (Miller) |
| | Their burning desire for freedom of religion did not, however, extend to others. | | | Both of them were cast out of New England and made their way to Rhode Island, which Williams founded as a religiously tolerant colony. | | | Very early in their American experience other dissenters began to emerge in their midst—Anne Hutchinson, who claimed to receive special revelations and whose semi-ministerial role in her meetings violated patriarchal ecclesiology, for example, and Roger Williams, who argued that New England Puritanism did not go far enough in reforming church and society. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/essays/miller2003.htm
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| | Ecclesiology -- Table of Contents (September 1 2005, 2 [1]) |
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