Since I finished the dissertation, I’ve been reading chunks of Karl Barth. In Volume I, Part 2 of his 13-part Church Dogmatics, he writes at length of the subjective side of revelation, what might be called the “appropriation” of the objective side of revelation, what Christ has accomplished for us (§16). How does it look, [...]
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The Church and the Spirit’s Mission
Posted in Ecclesiology, Missiology, Oliver O'Donovan, Pneumatology on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ethicist Oliver O’Donovan offers this interesting perspective on the dynamism of church structures: The catholic identity of the church derives from the progress of the Spirit’s own mission. It is therefore always larger than its ordered structures, taking its shape from the new ground that the Spirit is possessing. It remains for the church’s structures [...]
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