Toward a Nonviolent Koinonia
While many churches now affirm the importance of nonviolence as a missional strategy, it is not clear that this has yet affected their ecclesial self-understanding. What have the ecumenical churches said about the church and nonviolence? Have they developed enough of a nonviolent ecclesiology? In th...
| Published in: | Ecclesiology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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| In: |
Ecclesiology
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| IxTheo Classification: | KDJ Ecumenism NBN Ecclesiology NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Ecclesiology
koinonia
nonviolence
peace-making
eucharist
ecumenism
World Council of Churches
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| Summary: | While many churches now affirm the importance of nonviolence as a missional strategy, it is not clear that this has yet affected their ecclesial self-understanding. What have the ecumenical churches said about the church and nonviolence? Have they developed enough of a nonviolent ecclesiology? In this study, I contend that it is essential that the Christian churches be a nonviolent koinonia. The true church is the nonviolent church. Drawing upon major ecumenical documents, and listening to the voices of three theologians who have endorsed nonviolent theology, I outline a vision of the nonviolent church as a koinonia which participates in the life of the Triune God. As the community which is centred on the eucharist, I argue that the nonviolent koinonia is a community of anamnesis, of prolepsis, and of philoxenia. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5316 |
| Contains: | In: Ecclesiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455316-01103005 |