A Wisdom Archive on Ecclesiology

A Christian theological definition of Ecclesiology according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:
 
" Ecclesiology
The study of the Christian church, its structure, order, practices, and hierarchy.
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See also: Ecclesiology, Christianity, Body Mind and Soul )

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Ecclesiology comes from the Greek ekklesia (ἐκκλησία). While the term today is closely tied to the Christian church, its roots are broader. It is a compound of the Greek preposition ek (ἐκ), which denotes origin and could be independently translated from, and kaleo (καλέω), meaning to call or bid. Ecclesiology - Biblical Etymology. The Septuagint used ekklesia to translate the Hebrew word qâhâl (קהל), meaning a congregation, assembly, c ...

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Pastoral Epistles - Titles and Offices. Pastoral Epistles - Qualifications. Pastoral Epistles - Charitable ministries. ...

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Directories of emergent blogs include: The Ooze Search Engine Ginkworld Blogroll A sampling of emergent blogs can be found at the aggregator Planet Emergent. ...

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The Emerging Church is not confined to one denomination or gathering. Emerging churches can range in denominational affiliation from the Anglican/Episcopal Church to the Southern Baptist Church; still others are best described as non-affiliated intentional communities or house churches. The following sites list just a few of the emerging church websites found around the world: TheOoze.com Church Directory ginkworld.net's "Communities of Faith" zoecarnate.com Church Connection ...

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While there is no single co-ordinated organization behind the Emerging Church globally and no guarantee that the Emerging Church will mature into a coherent movement at all, the term is becoming increasingly common among leaders of Emerging Church groups and Emerging Church thinkers. Many of these leaders and thinkers have written books, articles and/or blogs on the subject using a shared terminology. Emerging Church groups are typically observed to emphasize the following elements: Highly creative approaches to worship a ...

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Divine grace - Orthodox. Kallistos Ware, The Inner Kingdom: The Collected Works (St. Vladimir's Seminary, 2000) ISBN 0881412090 The Way of a Pilgrim and A Pilgrim Continues on His Way, Olga Savin, trans. ISBN 1570628076 Divine grace - Roman Catholic. Catholic Teaching on Sin & Grace (Center for Learning, 1997) ISBN 1560775211 Stephen J. Duffy, The Graced Horizon: Nature and Grace in Modern Catholic Thought< ...

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During recent centuries, Western Christianity has been influenced significantly by modernism. Modernist Protestant theologians have sought to examine the individual narratives of the Bible and from them extract a set of underlying truths or "meta-narratives". By using methods borrowed from scientific reductionism, it was hoped that a grand truth and worldview would be attained. In practice, however, the modernist approach led to additional schism within the Church ...

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Most Christians believe that people receive salvation through the grace of God. Most Christians of any of the major Western denominations agree that mankind is born in a state of sin. This is a consequence of original sin; a sinful nature is inherited; it is part of man's condition. Traditionally, original sin is explained as a result of the fall of man through the first sins of Adam and Eve in Eden. Some would now reject the story from Genesis as history. But even those who reject it still agree that men are born in sin. The original ...

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Sociologists of religion, analysing the functioning of religious faiths and institutions as social structures without specific regard to their doctrines, have observed that religions operate differently, require different institutional forms, depending on how integrated they are with the surrounding society. Labels that have been given to some of these relationships include cult, sect, denomination, and ecclesia. In roughly ascending order, these terms relate ...

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Divine grace - Ideas of grace in the Hebrew Bible. While a single word rendered into English as grace is not strictly speaking present in the Hebrew Bible, a number of concepts used to describe God in Biblical-era Judaism are forerunners to the Christian concept of grace. One such concept is named by the Hebrew word chesed, which in one of William Tyndale's happier coinages was translated as loving-kindness. The core concept here centers around the faithfulness and forbearance needed t ...

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