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What does it mean to be a Church?
Author(s) -
Storch Kersten
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6623.2007.tb00654.x
Subject(s) - sermon , chapel , faith , order (exchange) , sociology , theology , philosophy , economics , finance
This is how I see it (and I emphasize again that I am not a systematic theologian or any kind of expert in ecumenics): I think that Roman Catholics start their theology with a doctrine of the Church. If you believe what they believe about the Church, you will probably be accept a lot of their theology. That might be true of Episcopalians as well–I'm not sure. Baptists start with the Bible. If you accept their understanding of the Bible, then what they teach about other matters will often hold up. I think Presbyterians start with a doctrine of God–the First Article God, i.e., God the Father. Pentecostals start with the Holy Spirit and Methodists start with a certain understanding of humanity.