Toward a Wesleyan Sacramental Ecclesiology*
John and Charles Wesley had a developed understanding of and reverence for sacramental practice and theology that suggests a dynamic sacramental ecclesiology and lends itself to a robust concept of sacramentality. Taking seriously Wesley’s imperative of ‘constant communion’, this paper looks to the...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
2013
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| Στο/Στη: |
Ecclesiology
Έτος: 2013, Τόμος: 9, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 19-38 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Sacramentality
sacramental
Wesley
Methodist
ecclesiology
incarnation
Trinity
communion
mission
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Σύνοψη: | John and Charles Wesley had a developed understanding of and reverence for sacramental practice and theology that suggests a dynamic sacramental ecclesiology and lends itself to a robust concept of sacramentality. Taking seriously Wesley’s imperative of ‘constant communion’, this paper looks to the Eucharist for an underlying, fundamental pattern of participation in the divine life whereby we embody and enact it by the power of the Spirit. The proposed Eucharistic pattern emphasizes a dynamic movement of ever greater participation in God by gathering together, offering all that we have and are, sharing our lives fully in trinitarian communion, and extending the communion we have become to little altars everywhere, especially to the ‘least of these’. To reframe Wesleyan ecclesiology in terms of a dynamic, relational sacramentality, patterned after the Eucharist, overcomes conventional oppositions of communion and mission by integrating them fully in the effort to follow Jesus Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5316 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | In: Ecclesiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455316-00901004 |