Wolfhart Pannenbergâs Postfoundational Ecclesiology
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This article interprets Wolfhart Pannenbergâs ecclesiology through a postfoundational framework. Pannenbergâs postfoundational theological methodology, based around the centrality of sub ratione Dei, is a dialectical relationship between the âfrom belowâ movement of context (âtrue infiniteâ) and the âfrom aboveâ movement of universal truth (Trinity) which reflects the differentiation-in-unity found in the immanent and economic Trinity. Accordingly, this article argues, Pannenbergâs ecclesiology, including his understanding of church essence (its role in creation and its constitutive members) and its activities (baptism, Eucharist, ministry) displays postfoundational relations between the particular and the universal bridging the divide between the secular and the sacred, the past, present, and future, and individual and community. In the discussion, concepts such as Christâs âperson,â âtransignification,â Christocentric election, and social trinitarianism are used to move the discussion past modern dualism and postmodern relativism and toward postfoundational relationality.
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Wolfhart Pannenbergâs Postfoundational Ecclesiology
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This article interprets Wolfhart Pannenbergâs ecclesiology through a postfoundational framework. Pannenbergâs postfoundational theological methodology, based around the centrality of sub ratione Dei, is a dialectical relationship between the âfrom belowâ movement of context (âtrue infiniteâ) and the âfrom aboveâ movement of universal truth (Trinity) which reflects the differentiation-in-unity found in the immanent and economic Trinity. Accordingly, this article argues, Pannenbergâs ecclesiology, including his understanding of church essence (its role in creation and its constitutive members) and its activities (baptism, Eucharist, ministry) displays postfoundational relations between the particular and the universal bridging the divide between the secular and the sacred, the past, present, and future, and individual and community. In the discussion, concepts such as Christâs âperson,â âtransignification,â Christocentric election, and social trinitarianism are used to move the discussion past modern dualism and postmodern relativism and toward postfoundational relationality.
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| Abstract Views | 992 | 59 | 4 |
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 130 | 3 | 0 |
