Mother Church
Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20162600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Chan (0000-0001-5216-6799, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 177-208 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pneuma (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157007400x00123 |
| OpenAlex | W1968031520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
177 SPS ARTICLES Mother Church: Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology Simon Chan Carl Braaten has recently called on Protestants to return to the ancient concept of mother church. Cyprian's statement that "he who has not the Church for his mother, has not God for his Father" has never really gone down well with Protestants. They tend to think of themselves as making the church (as implied in such expression as "the church is made up of believers") rather than the church making them. Consequently, Protestants have tended to see the church in purely sociological terms, that is, as a reality that
Church Fathers · Ecclesiology · Epistemology · Sociology · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |