Church and Covenant: Theological Resources for Divided Denominations
What theological resources do mainline churches have to counter ecclesial division and strife? Recent American discussions have invoked the idea of a “covenant” as the basis for the unity of the church. Strikingly, these discussions conceive of covenant as being of human making. This essay instead r...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Theology today (Ephrata, Pa.) Pa.), 2009-01, Vol.65 (4), p.449-461 |
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Zusammenfassung: | What theological resources do mainline churches have to counter ecclesial
division and strife? Recent American discussions have invoked the idea of
a “covenant” as the basis for the unity of the church. Strikingly,
these discussions conceive of covenant as being of human making. This essay
instead recommends the idea of a divine covenant as the basis for the church.
This is supported by an analysis of the idea of divine covenant in the
ecclesiology of the former Netherlands Reformed Church. |
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ISSN: | 0040-5736 2044-2556 |
DOI: | 10.1177/004057360906500404 |