Witness and service to the world. Discovering protestant church renewal in europe
| Abstract | This paper is based on the author's presentation at the Church Renewal Consultations of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) in 2009. It suggests three preliminary hermeneutical steps on the way to a Protestant ecclesiology in touch with the latest renewal processes in the churches. The first step is to focus the Protestant church concept on the Reformers' notion of discovering the hidden nature of the church within its worldly situation. The second step goes beyond the dogmatic fundamentals of the church by exploring different contexts (ethical, ecumenical etc.) in which that hidden church can be discovered. The third step is to consider worship as the heart of the church's life and at the same time as its most obvious contribution to life in public – a good starting-point for church renewal | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,709 |
| External links | This entry has no external links. Add one. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articles Nicholas (2008). Writings on Church and Reform. Harvard University Press.
Donald W. Shriver Jr & E. Richard Knox (1985). Taxation in the History of Protestant Ethics. Journal of Religious Ethics 13 (1):134 - 160.
Lambert J. Leijssen (1995). Rahner's Contribution to the Renewal of Sacramentology. Philosophy and Theology 9 (1/2):201-222.
William A. Clark (2001). The Authority of Local Church Communities. Philosophy and Theology 13 (2):399-424.
Katharina Junghans (1991). The Christians' Contribution to the Non-Violent Revolution in the GDR in the Fall of 1989. Philosophy and Theology 6 (1):79-93.
Wilfried Sieg (1997). Step by Recursive Step: Church's Analysis of Effective Calculability. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 3 (2):154-180.
Reinhard L. Hütter (1990). The Church: Midwife of History or Witness of the Eschaton? Journal of Religious Ethics 18 (1):27 - 54.
James Hennesey (1971). Papal Diplomacy and the Contemporary Church. Thought 46 (1):55-71.
Francis X. Curran (1953). The American Church of the Protestant Heritage. Thought 28 (2):311-312.
Jordan J. Ballor (2010). Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness. Christian's Library Press.
Richard W. Dunphy (1978). "Theological Investigations, Volume 14: Ecclesiology, Questions in the Church, The Church in the World," by Karl Rahner. The Modern Schoolman 55 (2):215-216.
James Armstrong (1993). One Protestant Looks at Centesimus Annus. Journal of Business Ethics 12 (12):933 - 944.
Alan Kreider (2003). Military Service in the Church Orders. Journal of Religious Ethics 31 (3):415 - 442.
Franz Böckle (1966). Law and Conscience. New York, Sheed and Ward.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2011-06-03Total downloads0Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
