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Ite, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Eugene Richard Schlesinger Apr 2016

Ite, Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, Eugene Richard Schlesinger

Dissertations (1934 -)

Since the latter half of the twentieth-century, a great many churches and ecclesial communities have agreed that the basic contours of what is called an ecclesiology of communion represents their own self-understanding. Communion ecclesiology centers upon a vision of the church as sharing together in the life of God, with ecclesiastical apparatus such as office, liturgy, and sacraments seen as facilitating this communion. Understood in this light, communion ecclesiology represents a movement away from overly juridical accounts of the church and toward a more organic conception of the church. For nearly the same time frame, a parallel missiological consensus has …


African Liberative Theologies, Joseph Ogbonnaya Jan 2015

African Liberative Theologies, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Public Catholicism: An American Prospect, Thomas Hughson Dec 2001

Public Catholicism: An American Prospect, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.