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Beyond Ecclesiocentricity: Navigating between the Abstract and the Domesticated in Contemporary Ecclesiology
Article first published online: 12 MAR 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2011.00616.x
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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How to Cite
HAMILL, B. (2012), Beyond Ecclesiocentricity: Navigating between the Abstract and the Domesticated in Contemporary Ecclesiology. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 14: 277–294. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2011.00616.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 4 JUN 2012
- Article first published online: 12 MAR 2012
Abstract
In this article I seek to explore how ecclesiology might be apocalyptic, with all the ‘otherness’ and invisibility that implies, while at the same time properly concrete. In engaging the contemporary debate about ecclesiocentricity I suggest that an account of historical participation in the history of Jesus Christ by the Spirit will benefit from both a mimetic ontology and a christologically disciplined approach to the marks of the church. According to such an approach, the church is more clearly discerned as a eucharistic and dispossessive sociality.