Cultural Episcopacy And Ecumenism

Author : Revd Allen Brent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004319875
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism written by Revd Allen Brent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishops are to be understood primarily as representatives of cultures regardless of where their people are territorially located. The vindication of this thesis has implications also for ecumenical reconciliation between episcopal and non-episcopal communions occupying the same geographical territory. The author compares the approaches and insights of both Vatican II and Lambeth 89 on this issue, and then proceeds to a historical and theological analysis of the development of the threefold Order in the early centuries, which he illuminates with the aid of contemporary sociological and cultural theory, in particular that of Durkheim. Key themes in the development of Order are identified in the classical texts of Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus, Cyprian, Tertullian and the Church Order literature. The author's conclusion is that we need both to break the geographical and jurisdictional mould in which our understanding of church Order has become set.

Author : Allen Brent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567532607
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignatius of Antioch written by Allen Brent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 115) is one of the Apostolic Fathers of the Christian Church. In his letters to other churches he re-interpreted church order, the Eucharist and martyrdom against the backcloth of the Second Sophistic in Asia minor by using the cultural material of a pagan society. He so formed the idea and theology of the office of a bishop in the Christian church. This book is an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of Christendom. Allen Brent defends the authenticity of the Ignatian letters by showing how the circumstances of Ignatius' condemnation at Antioch and departure for Rome fits well with what we can reconstruct of the internal situation in the Church of Antioch in Syria at the end of the first century. Ignatius is presented as a controversial figure arising in the context of a church at war with itself. Ignatius constructs out of the conflicting models of church order available to him one founded on a single bishop that he commends to Christian communities through which he passes in chains as a condemned martyr prisoner.

Author : Bruce Kaye
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1925612325
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Wonderful and Confessedly Strange' written by Bruce Kaye and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William G. Rusch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802847234
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecumenical Reception written by William G. Rusch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 William Rusch wrote a book tracing the development of the idea of reception up to that time. During the intervening years, both reflection on reception and the experience of attempting to engage in it have progressed considerably.Rusch begins with a bird's-eye view of the term reception across several disciplines -- law, philosophy, literary criticism -- before homing in on its theological import. He traces its use as a term and as a practice from the New Testament up to the twentieth century, painting a picture of a dynamic process that fosters unity and diversity among churches and spiritual communities. Finally, he examines the new chapter in the history of reception due to the establishment of the ecumenical movement, and considers what will be necessary for it to continue to move the church forward.

Author : Robert William Keith Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317128745
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) written by Robert William Keith Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyn’s theological formation, which places him in the context of the world of traditional high churchmanship, rather than the Oxford Movement narrowly conceived. It argues that his distinctiveness lay in the way in which he was able to transplant his vision of Anglicanism to the colonial context. Making use of Selwyn’s personal correspondence and papers, as well as his unpublished sermons, the book analyses his theological formation, his missionary policy, his role within the formation of the colonial episcopate, his attitude to conciliar authority and his impact upon the diocesan revival in England. The study places Selwyn alongside other likeminded high churchmen who shaped the framework for the transformation of Anglicanism from State Church to worldwide communion in the nineteenth century.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567575195
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reshaping Ecumenical Theology written by Paul Avis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshaping Ecumenical Theology is a major contribution to the study of the Church. It provides clear and authoritative orientation for the student, while probing deep into a range of key issues in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue from a critical standpoint that will stimulate discussion among scholars and ecumenists. It reclaims some old orthodoxies, while challenging some new ones, and points to a deeper and more personal engagement with the major traditions of the Christian Church as the way to fuller unity and more effective mission. Reshaping Ecumenical Theology argues that the values of difference and diversity and the priority of mission and evangelisation must shape our picture of unity. It transcends old arguments about 'establishment', by showing that all churches are compelled to develop a constructive relationship to the modern state, wherever possible, if they are to be effective in mission. The central ecumenical notion of 'reception' is re-interpreted, not as the faithful unquestioningly receiving the teaching of church authorities, but as the process whereby the whole Church discerns the truth of new developments. The mantra 'baptism is complete sacramental initiation' is challenged, and the place of confirmation is secured within a total process of initiation. The ministry of the episcopate is affirmed, but only by being related to the gospel on which the Church is founded. The nature of communion is examined and the imperative of maintaining it against divisive tendencies is affirmed. 'The hermeneutics of unity' shows that we are shaped by each other through the conflict or rivalry of traditions: 'We are what we are because you are what you are'.

Author : Jostein Ådna
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161485619
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formation of the Early Church written by Jostein Ådna and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays presented are adapted papers read at the 7th Nordic New Testament Conference in Stavanger, Norway, June 14-18, 2003.

Author : Revd Allen Brent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313125
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order written by Revd Allen Brent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.

Author : Xiaochao Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004320008
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Imperial Culture written by Xiaochao Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the writings of a group of Chinese Christian apologists in the seventeenth century, focussing on Xu Guangqi. Eleven of his shorter writings are included in Chinese and in translation. The first part of the book is devoted to a study of Latin Christian apologists within the Roman Empire to provide a comparison for the analysis of Xu Guangqi's work. Minucius Felix, Tertullian and Lactantius are shown to have faced, in regard to imperial power and Graeco-Roman culture, a situation comparable to that of Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Yang Tinqyun in regard to imperial power and culture in the late Ming period. The final chapters of the book reconsider general issues of confrontation and adaptation in the inculturation of Christianity.

Author : Jeffrey W. Driver
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666736163
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grey Spaces written by Jeffrey W. Driver and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churches around the world have been confronted by shame and culpability in widespread revelations of child sexual abuse. In this book, Jeffrey Driver, who has served the Australian Anglican Church as both a diocesan bishop and archbishop, explores some of the underlying cultural and theological influences that may have predisposed the possibility of abuse, as well as the defensiveness and cover-ups that sometimes followed. The first responses of most churches to the revelations of abuse were, of necessity, mostly structural and programmatic. Recognizing the institutional temptation to do only enough to settle a crisis, Jeffrey Driver calls for something different from the churches. Drawing on the imagery of Holy Saturday, he encourages a deeper journey of reflection and change, for churches and church leaders to linger reflectively in the grey spaces of loss and shame long enough to hear the voice of God addressing them through the vulnerable and the wounded once more, calling the church back to itself and into a deeper, humbler relationship with the world it is called to serve.