"Ecclesia" as Gathering Only?$ Evaluating the Use of Scripture in Proposals of the "Knox-Robinson Ecclesiology"
Broughton Knox and Donald Robinson, Sydney Anglicans serving and writing in the second half of the twentieth century, offered various theological proposals regarding the nature of the church that stressed the priority of the local over the translocal. The interdependence and resonance of their propo...
| Published in: | Anglican theological review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020
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Anglican theological review
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDE Anglican Church NBN Ecclesiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Donald Robinson
B Theology B Church B Sydney Anglicanism B Bible. New Testament B Universal Church B Ecclesiology B ROBINSON, Donald B Knox-Robinson ecclesiology B Broughton Knox B Local Church B use of scripture B Anglicans |
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| Summary: | Broughton Knox and Donald Robinson, Sydney Anglicans serving and writing in the second half of the twentieth century, offered various theological proposals regarding the nature of the church that stressed the priority of the local over the translocal. The interdependence and resonance of their proposals led to an association of their work under the summary banner of the "Knox-Robinson Ecclesiology." Their dovetailed contribution offers in many ways a compelling understanding of the nature of the ecclesia spoken of in Scripture. In this paper I introduce, summarize, and evaluate the Knox-Robinson ecclesiology with a particular eye to Knox's and Robinson's use of Scripture in authorizing their theological proposals. I argue that while they provide an important corrective to the inflation of the earthly translocal dimension of the church, they are not ultimately persuasive in their claim that the New Testament knows only the church as an earthly/heavenly gathering. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-6214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Anglican theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/000332862010200104 |