Tag: ecclesiology

Polanyi, Newbigin, and the Idea of a Questing Church.

Post author By Alister Pate
Post date 14/01/2014
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What does it mean to be a questing church? That idea can sound like saying that there are no truths, so that any and all beliefs are OK, spawning some sort of dull, relativist quagmire which has nothing much to offer its members, let alone anyone outside. It can feel a little as though the […]

Tags Bernard Lonergan, conservatism, Critical Realism, ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, liberalism, Michael Polanyi

Apologia pro vita sua Cafechurch Christianity Faith Spirituality in the Ordinary

Aristotle, George Vaillant, and Cafechurch

Post author By Alister Pate
Post date 07/01/2014
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It’s been a little while since I worked on my apologia pro vita sua thread – more than time to return to it. I had a bash at this article over the weekend, and ultimately didn’t like it much, which is why this is a bit later than usual – I’d rather be late with […]

Tags Aristotle, Church, community, ecclesiology, George Vaillant, Harvard Grant Study