Abstract

VAN WYK, Barry J.. Ephesians 1:14 and 1:22, 23 as a scriptural maximum-minimum for ecclesiology. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2017, vol.73, n.1, pp.1-9. ISSN 2072-8050.  https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i1.4073.

Against the background of a membership decline in mainstream churches in South Africa and abroad, and conscious of the theological debate in which a missional ecclesiology is presented as at least part of the modern-day solution to the problem, this article points in the direction of a Christological ecclesiology as an important ecclesiological point of departure. The article gives an exegetical outline of Ephesians 1:14 and 1:22, 23 as a critical maximum-minimum for a Christological ecclesiology and as a means of making missional ecclesiology more acceptable.

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