Synod and Synodality: Understandings from Acts of the Apostles

Across this paper, the endeavour has been to read the meaning of the Lukan author in his depiction of church life and governance. This depiction highlights behavioural governance more than structural governance. This may be expressed in the crucial perspective that suffuses the Lukan narrative – nam...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGavin, P. A. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Brill 2023
In: Ecclesiology
Year: 2023, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 312-335
Further subjects:B Church Governance
B Roman Catholic Church
B St Paul
B St Peter
B ecclesiastical polity
B Synodality
B Acts of the Apostles
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Description
Summary:Across this paper, the endeavour has been to read the meaning of the Lukan author in his depiction of church life and governance. This depiction highlights behavioural governance more than structural governance. This may be expressed in the crucial perspective that suffuses the Lukan narrative – namely, in praxis terms that the apostolic ministry is not situated over, above, and apart from the church. Rather, apostolic mission and ministry is situated and contested within the ecclesial body where the whole church is proactively and collaboratively engaged in the apostolic inheritance of the ministry of those who follow Jesus the Christ in The Way, with the apostles as the centre of action that remains ecclesial and pneumatic action. Such leadership is personal, but not singular, is ecclesially inclusive, and ecclesially accountable.
ISSN:1745-5316
Contains:Enthalten in: Ecclesiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455316-19030006