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Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness

Ward, Peter

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Normativity in Ecclesiology has tended to be based on a particular understanding of theology as blueprint. In the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conversation there has been some dispute around how theological normativity should operate. This paper argues that theological knowledge arises from an ecclesial context of ‘abiding.’ This abiding is pneumatological in nature ‘like the wind’ and as such it is perilous. This point is argued with resort to a critical realist epistemology.

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Ward, P. (2015). Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness. Ecclesial Practices, 2(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201008

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 4, 2015
Online Publication Date May 8, 2015
Publication Date Jan 1, 2015
Deposit Date May 19, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Ecclesial Practices
Print ISSN 2214-4463
Electronic ISSN 2214-4471
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2
Issue 1
Pages 74-90
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201008
Keywords Qualitative research, Epistemology, Normativity, Abiding.

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