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four marks Archive
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Discovering Commonality
Posted on 2007/10/14 | 1 CommentOne of the difficulties faced is creating an ecclesiological rubric that can receive broad acceptance. Positively, there is broad acceptance of Scripture as at least theologically informative. This being the... -
Then, Now, and When
Posted on 2007/10/05 | No CommentsReflecting on Emil Brunner’s discussion of “apostolica” in Dogmatics Vol. III When we look at church, we see form–or forms. Brunner insists that form is not an essential aspect of... -
Unam Apostolicam Ecclesiam
Posted on 2007/10/04 | No CommentsApostolicity is a subject of much disagreement. Some traditions hold to a specific form of apostolic succession. Barth refutes this as external, insufficient, and false. For Barth, apostolic means the... -
Unam Catholicam Ecclesiam
Posted on 2007/10/03 | 2 CommentsContinuing with Barth… The catholicity of the church, by which is meant that which is general and comprehensive, the essence of which true church is recognized as true, is found... -
Credo Sanctam Ecclesiam
Posted on 2007/10/01 | No CommentsContinuing Barth’s discussion of the four marks: When I look at myself with earthly eyes, I do not see a holy person. When I look at the church with earthly... -
Credo Unam Ecclesiam
Posted on 2007/09/28 | 4 CommentsUnity (and too often uniformity) and division seem to be constants in the church. At the very moment when the church is striving for ecumenism, denominations are splitting. Barth shows... -
Criteria for Holiness and Catholicity
Posted on 2007/09/26 | No Comments(continuing with Clowney) In his chapter on holiness and catholicity, Clowney brings us back to the Scriptures and past traditional doctrine. Drawing on Paul’s epistolary salutations, he discerns two movements...
