Enkele opmerkings oor die wese van die kerk

Abstract

Some remarks on the nature of the church This article is an endeavour, broadly based on the New Testament, to formulate by means of a number of theses with comments, what may be regarded as the most distinctive characteristics of the church. It represents a selection of traits taken from different New Testament documents, which show a preference for the Pauline understanding of the concept, as well as for the earlier over against later institutionalized versions of ecclesiastical self-understanding as expressed, for example, in the Pastorals.

Die dimensies “eenheid” en “katolisiteit” in die ekklesiologie van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk sedert Ottawa 1982

“…Die kerk kan nie anders as om voluit sigbaar te wees nie. Anders word daar in 'n Platonistiese utopie verval (o a Van Aarde 1987;Küng [1968Küng [ ] 2001Pelser 1994;Buitendag 2006). Die idee van die kerk as 'n onsigbare grootheid voldoen nie aan die eis van die konkrete karakter van die kerk hier en nou of aan die "statements of action" nie (Moltmann 1993:342).…”