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The Anointed Church: Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology

The Anointed Church

Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology

Gregory J. Liston (Author)

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The phrase Third Article Theology is used in two senses: first, to characterize a methodological approach that intentionally starts with the Spirit, and second, as the theological understanding that emerges from this approach. Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized the approach of Third Article Theology to gain significant insight into the person and life of Christ.

The Anointed Church extends this work, providing the first constructive and systematic ecclesiology developed through the approach of Third Article Theology. Gregory J. Liston argues that a pneumatological lens irreducibly informs the connection between other theological doctrines and ecclesiology. Utilizing this insight, the Church is examined from the vantage points of Christology and the Trinity through such a pneumatological lens.

The constituent features of a Third Article Ecclesiology developed in this manner are compared and contrasted with critical evaluations of ecclesiological understandings developed through alternative approaches, particularly those of Barth, Zizioulas, and Volf. Arguing that the immanent identity of the Spirit is reprised on a series of expanding stages (Christologically, soteriologically, and, most pertinently here, ecclesiologically), Liston concludes that the Church can be characterized as existing in any and all relationships where, by the Spirit, the love of Christ, is offered and returned.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9781451497069
  • eBook ISBN 9781506400426
  • Dimensions 6 x 9
  • Pages 422
  • Publication Date September 1, 2015

Contents

Part I: Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
1. Third Article Theology
2. A “Chalcedonian” Spirit Christology
3. Constructing a Third Article Ecclesiology
Part II: The Church as Sequel to the Incarnation
4. Two Contrasting Christological Ecclesiologies
5. The Pneumatological Union between Christ and the Church
6. A Christological Third Article Ecclesiology
Part III: The Church as Participant in Trinitarian Life
7. From the Economic to the Immanent Trinity
8. From the Immanent Trinity to Ecclesiology
9. Ecclesial Communion in the Trinity
10. A Trinitarian Third Article Ecclesiology
11. Conclusion
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