The Priority of God's Call to the Church The Transcendental Nature of the Church. The need for dialogue with indigenous African churches Mystical models of the church and the reappraisal of charismatic renewal in the CPSA.
WHO IS HANS KONG?
The Council placed him squarely at the center of the controversy between the reformers and the traditionalists in the Church (Jeanrond 1997: 163). The fact that this new situation was conducive to his theology is further confirmed by the vehemence with which he advocated radical questions about the nature of the Church and theology in general in the period during and after Vatican 11.
THE THESIS AND THE WIDER CORPUS OF KUNG'S THEOLOGY
During the 1970s, Kling seemed to have shifted his focus to focus on key articles of the Christian faith. Put another way, can the present study be compared to listening to the Beatles again when they have long sunk into oblivion in the memories of the contemporary generation.
THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS
THE METHODOLOGY TO BE USED
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
- THE CHRISTOCENTRIC NATURE OF FAITH
- FAITH AS GRACE AND FREEDOM
- FAITH IS ESCHATOLOGICAL
- THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIMENSION IN FAITH
- FAITH IS DYNAMIC
- THE COMMUNAL DIMENSION IN FAITH
- THE FIRST TWO AND HALF CENTURIES OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
- THE HERMENEUTICS OF REASON, FAITH AND LOVE: THE EXAMPLE OF ST AUGUSTINE
- DEVELOPMENTS AFTER AUGUSTINE
- THE ADVENT OF ST ANSELM AND THE USE OF FAITH AS A HERMENEUTICAL PRINCIPLE IN THEOLOGY
- THE TWELFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
- FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Christocentric nature of the faith gives rise to another dimension in the character of the Christian faith. One of the ways in which this is clearly demonstrated is in the concept of perichoresis.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND THE DECISIVE ORIGINS OF THE CHURCH
IS KONG'S THEOLOGY A FIDEISM?
Each century has its own image of the Church, which results from a particular historical situation. In his theology of the Church as an example, he devotes a fair amount of space to examining how the different images of the Church are developed in history.
THE CIIDRCH AS AN OBJECT OF FAITH
Is it not true that faith as a point of view already offers an unacceptable bias in arriving at the objective truth about the reality under investigation? This, as has been shown even in response to some of the criticisms of Enlightenment thinkers, is a wrong idea on which to base your argument.
CONCLUSION
This prepared the context for the discussion of the use of the concept by KOng as a tool for interpretation. We did this first by demonstrating how faith is connected to the ultimate origin of reality called the Church.
INTRODUCTION
THE PRIORITY OF THE CALL OF GOD IN THE CHURCH
THE TRANSCENDENTAL NATURE OF THE CHURCH
To this extent, the life of the Church owes its origin to a source outside itself. To this extent, then, the Church has a future orientation that is characteristic of the nature of faith.
THE ESSENCE OF THE CHURCH AS A CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR IN THE COMPLEX NATURE OF THE CHURCH
At the center of the Church is the mystery of Christ, which in the power of the Spirit revives the life of the Church. This same Christ who dwells in the Church, in the power of the Spirit, is constantly realizing the plan of God's salvation.
THE CONTEXT IN WHICH THE CHURCH IS SITUATED
The fact that different contexts give rise to different understandings of the nature of the Church may further illustrate the situation in South Africa. Obviously, in this context, the Marxist view (which, among other things, understands social reality in terms of conflict) influenced the understanding of the nature of the Church and thus gave rise to the aforementioned interpretation.
THE COMMUNITY'S FAITH AND ECCLESIOLOGICAL MODELS
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMAGES AND MODELS
For Dulles, if an image is used in a way that is both reflective and critical, it can be considered a model. This means that when a theologian uses a certain image (eg the Church as the flock of Christ), knowing that said image can be both useful and misleading in its use, such an image becomes a model.
THE CHURCH AS MYSTICAL FELLOWSHIP
THE CHURCH AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD
- THE CHURCH AS A 'DISTINCTIVE SECT' WITHIN JUDAISM
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE CHURCH
I want to argue that Kling draws attention to this situation in the life of the early church for a reason. The new people of God came into being as a result of the preaching of the apostles about Jesus Christ.
THE COMMUNITY'S FAITH AND A PNEUMA TOLOGICAL ECCLESIOLOGY
- THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A GIFT TO THE CHURCH RECEIVED BY FAITH
- THE CHURCH AS THE TEMPLE OF THE SPIRIT
It is a freedom and a community given by the life of the Spirit, lived by the Church. The church is often described in scripture as the building, hence the temple of the Holy Spirit.
THE FAITH OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE BODY OF CHRIST MODEL
If they come from the Lord Jesus Christ, they are to be regarded as binding criteria for the unity of the Church. Hans Kling is aware that the question of the origin of the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist can be a subject of debate in theology.
THE CHURCH AS SERVANT
Kling points out that the oldest direct statement of God that speaks of the celebration of the Eucharist is 1 Corinthians 11:23-25. In the same way, Kling takes up this theme of a Ministering Church in his 1960s church.
THE PRIORITY OF THE COMMUNITY'S FAITH IN THE FORMATION OF ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE
FAITH, DIAKONIA AND ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE
In this sense, every person who holds office in the Church is first and foremost a person of faith and a legitimate member of the Church. This suggests that the office a person holds in the Church is a direct consequence of one's fellowship in the community of believers.
THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH VIS-A-VIS THE NOTAE ECCLESIARUM
This means that the nature of the church as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, is a nature that must constantly be realized anew in the life of the church, when people decide for God in faith. Put differently, by coming to faith in Christ, one begins a journey which is constantly involved in realizing the nature of the Church as one, holy, catholic and apostolic in the arena of history.
CONCLUSION
This led us to consider some of the factors that contribute to the complex nature of the Church. We then turned our attention to the value of a hermeneutic of faith in linking one's understanding of the Church to the idea of diakonia.
INTRODUCTION
HOW DOES KONG UNDERSTAND HOLY SCRIPTURE?
SCRIPTURE IS THE ORIGINAL TESTIMONY OF FAITH
The Holy Scriptures are therefore the norma normans of the Church's tradition, and tradition must be seen as the norma normata. Kiing's belief is therefore that the Scriptures are documents that arise from the faith of the community, and as such can be made sense of by the same faith.
SCRIPTURE AS A SOURCE FOR THEOLOGISING
- SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY
The idea expressed here is the church as an event that takes place in the arena of history. Taking this starting point has certain consequences that can only be found in the origins of the Church.
THE ECUMENICAL CHARACTER OF KONG'S ECCLESIOLOGY
For this reason, ecclesiology will seek to dialogue with other religions, while the Christian Churches, on the other hand, begin to act together in their witness to the faith. Rather, they can be used to build community and foster bonds of unity among believers.
THE MISSIONARY DIMENSION IN KONG'S ECCLESIOLOGY
Healthy ecumenical relationships in ecclesiology will enable a particular Church to see itself in other ecclesial communities, rather than exaggerating the differences. Taking the faith of community as the overriding methodological principle for his theology inevitably leads Kiing to have a strong desire for unity in the church.
A CRITIQUE OF KONG'S ECCLESIOLOGY
- SOME WEAKNESSES IN THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF KONG
- THE CHURCH EXISTS BEYOND THE FIRST CENTURY
- A PROPENSITY TOWARDS AN ECLECTIC USE OF SCRIPTURE
- THE SHORTCOMINGS OF MYSTICAL MODELS OF THE CHURCH
- THE OBSCURITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE VISIBLE
- THE DANGER OF DEIFYING THE CHURCH
- THE POSSIBILITY OF OVEREMPHASIZING A HERMENEUTICAL POSITION
- AN IMPLICIT MIXTURE OF OBDURACY AND FAITH?
We affirmed that such an attitude is imitated in the communal life of the Church. Fellowship and love in this community are a direct consequence of God's life in the Church.
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS A PARADIGM?
THE HERMENEUTICS OF FAITH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PARADIGMS
On the other hand, I will continue to relate the faith of the community to the prophetic ministry of the CPSA in the new dispensation. But before we can tackle the aforementioned tasks, a brief explanation of the CPSA is in order.
WHAT IS THE CPSA?
THE VALUE OF THE SCRIPTURES FOR ANGLICAN PIETY AND THEOLOGISING
This was most prevalent in the house church movement, which was a brain child of the renewal mentioned in The Church.'. The situation in the CPSA is such that more training in such things as the interpretation of Scripture generally remains in the hands of the clergy.
THE CPSA AND ITS MISSION IN A POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
THE FAITH OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE CPSA'S PROPHETIC MINISTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA
To apply to the Church what is said in the New Testament about the rule of God will necessarily lead to an unbearable glorification of the Church, the presentation of a. In this sense, the relevant political party also becomes, as it were, the political embodiment of the eschatological kingdom of God in the present.
THE CPSA'S USE OF THE TOOLS OF SOCIAL ANALYSIS
For this reason, I would like to argue that if the CPSA is to conduct an effective political theology in its mission in the post-apartheid situation, the tools its theology must use for the analysis of social reality must be subject to the faith of the community and not to the faith of the community. vice versa. For example, an ideology becomes demonic when it seeks to serve the interests of the powerful at the expense of the poor and marginalized.
SPECIFIC EXAMPLES IN THE CPSA'S ECCLESIOLOGY AS RELATED TO KUNG'S PARADIGMATIC EXAMPLES
- KONG'S ECCLESIOLOGY AND THE REDISCOVERY OF THE LAITY IN THECPSA
- AN ECCLESIOLOGY IN DIALOGUE WITH THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN CONTEXT OF THE CPSA
- AFRICAN CULTURE AND ANGLICAN ECCLESIOLOGY
- THE NEED FOR DIALOGUE WITH AFRICAN INDIGENOUS CHURCHES
- MYSTICAL MODELS OF THE CHURCH AND THE RE-APPRAISAL OF THE CHARISMATIC RENEWAL IN THE CPSA
- THE CHURCH AND THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC
Ultimately, the exaggeration leads to the laity being passively subordinated to the authority of the clergy. In the mystical models of the Church there is an insistence on the mystical presence of God with which the Church is imbued.
CONCLUSION
In this case, we concluded that mystical models of the Church will enable the Church to effectively deal with such challenges as them/AIDS pandemic, and also help the Church to fulfill its prophetic role in a post-apartheid to discover South Africa. The next chapter will therefore be a comprehensive general conclusion of the whole thesis, and will at the same time identify areas for further work.
INTRODUCTION
IN RETROSPECT
To this extent, we have noted that not even biblically motivated models can claim to be comprehensive in their presentation of the Church. After this we noted how Kling's dominant theological principle influences his particular understanding of the characteristics of the Church.
CONCLUSIONS
The first set of examples was clearly concerned with the paradigmatic nature of the hermeneutics of faith as a dominant principle in authentic and responsible theologizing. The hermeneutics of faith as an interpretative overriding principle has the ability to improve not only the Church's self-understanding, but also the ability of the contemporary Church to engage effectively with the issues specific to its context.
AREAS FOR FURTHER STUDY AND RESEARCH
Third, there are undoubtedly important and specific paradigmatic themes that Hans Kilng's theology offers for the contemporary salvation community, especially for the Church of the Province of South Africa. The Constitution and Canons of the Church of the Province of South Africa: Together with Other Acts and Resolutions of the Provincial Synod up to 1999.
