The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought : The Church-Event (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Ingle-Gillis, William C.

Routledge（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 234 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138259522
• DDC分類 262.0011

Full Description

Some hundred years from inception, the ecumenical movement is stagnating. William C. Ingle-Gillis argues that the problem lies in modern ecumenism's treatment of denominational Churches as provisional entities requiring reunion to be more fully Christ's Body. In a work unique both to ecumenical studies and to trinitarian theology, the author redefines ecclesial life from the premise that God's essence is personhood-in-communion and that the ultimate calling of human persons is to share as fully in the divine life as Christ himself. Concluding that the Churches are, by the Spirit's action, a tangible, dynamic event, wherein God makes visible his on-going reconciliation of the world to himself, Ingle-Gillis argues that the Churches' true life lies in coming-together, rather than being-together. This conclusion places ecumenism at the heart of Church life and witness.

Contents

Contents: Part 1 The Provisionalist Ecclesiology of Modern Ecumenism: Ecumenism and ecclesiology; Survey of ecumenical provisionalism. Part 2 Trinitarian Ontology: The Ecclesiological Cornerstone: Principles of trinitarian ontology and cosmology; The spirit in the economy of being and salvation. Part 3 Event-Ecclesiology and -Ecumenism: Ecclesiological principles; Event-ecclesiology: a response to provisionalism. Bibliography; Index.