RT Article
T1 Conflict as Communion: Toward an Agonistic Ecclesiology
JF Journal of Anglican studies
VO 17
IS 2
SP 133
OP 147
A1 Lambelet, Kyle Brent Thompson
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1726741273
AB Though Anglican theologians, clergy, and laypeople have written and spoken extensively about the current status of the Anglican Communion, the conceptualization and practice of conflict has itself remained largely unexamined. This essay argues for the necessity of a better theology of conflict, one rooted in a Trinitarian account of unity through difference. It shows that Anglicans have tended to think of conflict-as-sin or conflict-as-finitude. The essay commends a semantic shift that develops conflict-as-communion. Conflict is a means of grace that animates the divine life of the Trinity, enables God’s work of salvation in history, and is a natural part of good human sociality. This theology of conflict can allow generative relational practices, some of which are already in use across the Anglican Communion.
K1 Bruce Kaye
K1 John Webster
K1 Anglican Communion
K1 Trinity
K1 Agonism
K1 Conflict
K1 perichoresis
DO 10.1017/S1740355319000135