1. the study of church building and decoration.2. Theology. the doctrine of the church.3. the policy and operations of the church. — ecclesiologist, n. — ecclesiologic, ecclesiological, adj.See also: Church -Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
While promoting much in the way of sound doctrine, saying many true things, their lives are not rooted and grounded in the life of a local church. There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between Christ as the Head of the Church and His Body (the church). Such should never be the ...
within the Godhead.8 The missio Dei concept adopts this traditional understanding and builds on it, as noted by David Bosch: "The classical doctrine of the missio Dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet ano...
As evangelicals identified with one another across national and denominational boundaries, they imagined the Church in new ways, subordinating church order to evangelical piety in an unprecedented way. There was no distinctively evangelical doctrine of church order and yet they seemed to see in their...
It seems unnecessary to juxtapose the Eastern doctrine of the Trinity and Augustine’s conception and to claim that the latter is predominantly characterised by the dominance of unity (Oberdorfer 2001, p. 196). In Augustine’s theology, the category of “relation” constitutes the unique status ...
A third feature of the continuing theological structures of Stalin's thought, albeit reshaped in light of the Marxist tradition, concerns nothing less than Marxist anthropology (the doctrine of human nature). The key is an "Augustinian irruption" into both Russian Orthodox assumptions concerning ...
As for the subject matter, he would always aim at the heart of Reformation theology: The doctrine of justification. later also Christology, the doctrine of the Trinity, as well as anthropology, were his favorite topics. Again and again Luther emphasized the importance of disputation exercises ...
As evangelicals identified with one another across national and denominational boundaries, they imagined the Church in new ways, subordinating church order to evangelical piety in an unprecedented way. There was no distinctively evangelical doctrine of church order and yet they seemed to see in their...