Praxis or Talk about Praxis? The Concept of Praxis in Ecclesiology
Churches are in crisis. The turn to praxis in ecclesiology appears to attend to the current crisis; yet, the appearance might be deceptive. Since post-liberal ecclesiologies – such as John Milbank’s – consider neither quantitative-empirical nor qualitative-empirical accounts of concrete churches, th...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Ecclesial practices
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-136 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church KDE Anglican Church NBN Ecclesiology |
Further subjects: | B
John Milbank
Ernst Troeltsch
ecclesiology
ethnography
sociology
practice
praxis
identity
church
community
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Summary: | Churches are in crisis. The turn to praxis in ecclesiology appears to attend to the current crisis; yet, the appearance might be deceptive. Since post-liberal ecclesiologies – such as John Milbank’s – consider neither quantitative-empirical nor qualitative-empirical accounts of concrete churches, the turn might be assessed as a turn to talk about praxis instead of a turn to praxis. Confronting Milbank’s concept of praxis with the ecclesiology of Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), I argue that Troeltsch allows for accounts of concrete churches since he conceptualises the identity of Christianity not as a proposition but as a project. Hence, praxis is the criterion for the evaluation of concepts of identity. Both churches and reflections on churches are to be ‘elasticised’ in order to attend to the current crisis. |
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ISSN: | 2214-4471 |
Contains: | In: Ecclesial practices
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00301007 |