Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness

Ward, Peter

Abstract

Normativity in Ecclesiology has tended to be based on a particular understanding of theology as blueprint. In the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conversation there has been some dispute around how theological normativity should operate. This paper argues that theological knowledge arises from an ecclesial context of ‘abiding.’ This abiding is pneumatological in nature ‘like the wind’ and as such it is perilous. This point is argued with resort to a critical realist epistemology.

Citation

Ward, P. (2015). Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness. Ecclesial Practices, 2(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201008

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 4, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 8, 2015
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 19, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: May 28, 2015
• Journal: Ecclesial Practices
• Print ISSN: 2214-4463
• Electronic ISSN: 2214-4471
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 74-90
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201008
• Keywords: Qualitative research, Epistemology, Normativity, Abiding.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1407890