Book Review: The Church as the Body of Christ. By Eduard Schweitzer, SPCK, 1965. 78 pp. 5s. 6d; The Anglican Synthesis. Edited by W. R. F. Browning. Peter Smith, 1965. 159 pp. 21s; Christ and Methodism. By John J. Vincent. Epworth Press, 1965. 124 pp. 8s. 6d; The Church Today and Tomorrow. By J. V. Langmead Casserley. SPCK, 1965. 114 pp. 6s

Theology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 69 (555) ◽  
pp. 422-423
Author(s):  
C. J. Sansbury
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-471
Author(s):  
G. S. Dobbins
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  

Augustinus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Paola Marone ◽  

The modern scholars have studied the maternity of the Church independently from the anti-Donatist literature. But a careful study of the anti-Donatist documents reveals many interesting elements. According to Optatus and Augustine the notion of mother was abscribed to all believers, because the body of Christ was formed of all those the Church bore as children through the baptism. According to both African bishops also the donatists gave a valid baptism, but only Augustine demonstrated how the salvation could be found outside of the viscera Ecclesiae. Then this article deals with the image of the Ecclesia mater as illustrated in the Adversus Donatistas of Optatus published in answer to the donatist bishop Parmenianus and in all that Augustine penned against the schismatics (Tractatus, Sermones, Epistulae). By doing so, it presents a picture of the African theology of the fourth century.


Ecclesiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Kenneth Wilson

Does Methodism want a distinctive ecclesiology? British Methodism assumes its ecclesiology from the Church of England which explains its lack of ecclesiological thinking, its genuine desire for reunification, and indeed its focus on ecclesia in actu. But there can be no ecclesia in actu apart from ecclesia per se. Being and doing are one in God. The Church, grounded in the dynamic being of God in Trinity, celebrates in the action of the Eucharist the wholeness of God’s presence with his world. Proleptically the Church includes the whole of creation and all people. Hence, when as the Body of Christ we pray the Our Father with our Lord, we pray on behalf of all, not just for ourselves. But what then do we mean by apostolicity? Perhaps in Methodism we would be well occupied exploring more keenly with the Roman Catholic Church what we each mean by being a society within the church. Outler may have been right when he opined that Methodism needed a Catholic Church within which to be church.


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