The Church Faces Death: Ecclesiology in a Post-Modern ContextOxford University Press, 19 Ağu 1999 - 160 sayfa Ecclesiology (the theology of the church) is a neglected topic in contemporary theology. At a time when the institutional churches are experiencing dramatic decline, says Michael Jinkins, we need a new understanding of what the church is. In this work, Jinkins challenges the church to rediscover its vocation, to follow Jesus Christ even at the risk of its institutional survival. In the face of a variety of perceived threats to its future, he reminds us that the church is most alive and attractive when it forgets about itself and its safety. The ecclesiology Jinkins puts forward is born from a sense of "life in Christ" that can, he argues, face institutional death to recover a remarkable freedom. Without detailing the face of the future church, he asserts his faith that there is indeed life after death for the church as the worshipping body of Christ. |
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The Church Faces Death Ecclesiology in Search of Identity and Responsibility | 8 |
Describing Church Ecclesiology in Semiotic Dialogue | 33 |
Taxonomies Paradox Plurality and the Enduring Genius of Church | 50 |
Speaking of Church What Does It Mean When We Use the Word Church? | 69 |
Confessions A Preface to Ecclesiology | 85 |
Epilogue | 102 |
Notes | 105 |
Select Bibliography | 127 |
Index | 137 |
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Sayfa 35 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
Sayfa 8 - Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Sayfa 14 - If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
Sayfa 21 - Abba! Father!' it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Sayfa 25 - For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
Sayfa 29 - Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Sayfa 23 - Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Sayfa 20 - There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Sayfa 22 - For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; "for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; " because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Sayfa 114 - As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.