Amy Plantinga Pauw, Church in Ordinary Time: A Wisdom Ecclesiology

Ecclesiology in Context: Urban Church Planting in the Netherlands

Evangelicals have always been known for their missionary zeal. Usually, this went together with a pragmatic or even dismissive attitude towards ecclesiology. However, in a late-modern urban context ecclesiological questions are inevitable when Christians set out for mission. These questions will be the main subject of this chapter.1 Christian community formation is part of the answer that human...

Age of Wisdom: Elderly Black Women in Family and Church

Among all living organisms, the process of birth, growth and death constitutes a familiar biologic cycle. For human beings this process is often divided into phases based on the development of the individual. Variations in importance of one phase versus another of this universal process occur as a result of the cultural context. Age as measured in years is a fairly meaningless concept for the b...

A Half Century of Ecclesiology

T PROTESTANT theologian Otto Dibelius made a prophetic statement when, in the title of a well-known book, he referred to the 20th century as "the century of the Church." Although treatises on the Church had appeared sporadically since the 14th century, ecclesiology had not yet assumed the central position in Catholic theology that it has enjoyed in our own century. The foundation of Theological...

Ecclesiology and Aboriginal Cultural Traditions

When Christianity came to Australia, with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, it came as the religion of the Europeans. After the new penal colony had survived the crises of the first few years, the British gradually extended their control over the whole continent. Thus they established in this country the dominance of European culture. In fact they were determined that this ‘new’ country w...

No ordinary time.