RT Article
T1 Towards a Pneumatological-Ecclesiology: Outside the “Two Lungs of the Church”
JF Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
VO 7
IS 2
SP 211
OP 229
A1 Lim, Timothy Teck Ngern
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580636101
AB This paper critiques the framing of the pneumatological underpinning of ecclesiology as an Orthodox-Catholic conversation. The context for the Joint Commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue warrants the use of the metaphor “two lungs of the church” by official church leaders, ecclesiologists and theologians to speak of the Spirit's work in and between both communions. However, I want to call attention to the pneumatological and ecclesiological problems in the use of the image “two lungs of the church.” If the Holy Spirit breathes upon and through the Body of Christ, reading the Spirit's operation in the church (pneumatological-ecclesiology) cannot ignore, and much less dismiss or absorb (either explicitly or implicitly), the charismas outside of the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy. Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, Brethren, Evangelicals, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Charismatics are also contexts for studying the Spirit's work in the churches. The paper concludes by proffering a mapping of recent pneumatological contributions of other Christian denominations and churches to invite theologians to assist in reframing or reconceptualizing a more appropriate anatomic metaphor for the Spirit's work in and among the churches together.
K1 Believers' Church (Baptist and Brethren) Pneumatology
K1 Evangelical Pneumatology
K1 Orthodox-Catholic Pneumatological-Ecclesiology as the Two Lungs of the Church
K1 Pentecostal/Charismatic Renewal Pneumatology
K1 Pneumatological- Ecclesiology
K1 Presbyterian/Reformed Pneumatology
DO 10.1515/ress-2015-0016