RT Article
T1 Het ons kerkwees in strukture gestol?
JF Hervormde teologiese studies
VO 42
IS 1
SP 94
OP 109
A1 Spoelstra, B.
LA Afrikaans
YR 1986
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1946129461
AB Does the church freeze in structures? Indications worldwide reveal that no clear and distinct concept of the church prevails today. It is maintained that a dynamic concept of the church and ministerial view on ecclesiastical institutions gave way during the Enlightenment to the concept of the church as a fixed formal institution or a legally defined structure. Even the Reformation wanted to reform papacy and not to establish church structures in opposition to Rome. The structural and denominational view of the church triggered off recurrent church schisms and on the other hand gave birth to an overwhelming urge to unify and form worldwide ecumenical structures, whereby local diversities are even called sin. The question is raised: By retaining the dynamic concept of the church as humans, people of God, wouldn't a new perspective be opened on the problem of diversities?
K1 Sociology and Ethics
K1 Ancient Semitic and Classical Languages
K1 Philosophy
K1 Aspects of Religious Studies
K1 Practical Theology
K1 Ministers of Religion
K1 Scholars
K1 Philosophers
K1 Theologians
K1 Netherdutch Reformed Church
K1 Theology
DO 10.4102/hts.v42i1.2131