After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the TrinityIn After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as "gathered community" that he shared with Radical Reformers. Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process he engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a brilliant ecumenical study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God. |
Contents
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PART I | 21 |
Communion and the Whole | |
Communion One and Many | |
Ecclesial Personhood | |
The Ecclesiality of the Church | |
Faith Person and Church | |
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according to Ratzinger According to Zizioulas activity apostolic baptism become believers bishop body of Christ catholicity charisma charismata Christian christological cognitive communion conceived concerning concrete condition of ecclesiality confession of faith congregation Congregationalism correspondence creation divine persons doctrine ecclesial ecclesial communion ecclesiology ecumenical emphasis entire episcopal eschatological eucharistic gathering existence expression Father Free Church gifts God's hierarchical Holy Spirit human hypostasis Ibid identical individual insofar institutions Jesus Christ Jürgen Moltmann Kirche laity larger church liturgical live Lumen gentium mediation of faith merely ministry Moltmann mutual neue Volk notion officeholders ontological ordination Orthodox participation particular perichoresis personhood perspective precisely present presupposes presupposition Prinzipienlehre pure relation Ratzinger's regard relationality relationship sacraments salvation salvific grace sense simultaneously Smyth social soteriological specific structure Testament theologian theological tradition trinitarian trinitarian persons Trinity triune triune God Unitatis redintegratio unity universal church whole Christ whole church ἐκκλησία