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The Church as the Disabled Body of Christ

The Church as the Disabled Body of Christ KUNG Lap Yan This paper points out that the body employed as the metaphor of the church in relation to Christ is implicitly understood as a perfect body rather than a disabled body. As a result, it does not fully ...

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The Church as the Body of Christ: Exploring the Concept of Symbol according to Samuel T. Coleridge

The Church as the Body of Christ: Exploring the Concept of Symbol according to Samuel T. Coleridge David Y. LEE The church is often described metaphorically in the Bible as the body of Christ. Some New Testament scholars have found that such a metaphor.. .

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The Ecumenical Foundation of the Church: From the Perspective of Historical Theology

The Ecumenical Foundation of the Church: From the Perspective of Historical Theology Chun-ming FONG Christ is the head of the church and the church is the body of Christ. Since Christ has only one body, His churches should be united in one. On what basis...

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Gregory of Nyssa on Human Body

Gregory of Nyssa on Human Body Francis Ching-wah YIP Gregory of Nyssa was an important father of the Eastern church. Faithful to the biblical tradition while critically adopting Greek thought, he affirmed the significance and goodness of the body. He...

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The Body of Yahweh

The Body of Yahweh Ka-leung WONG Recent studies on the body of the God in the Old Testament mostly focus on the question of whether God has a body and, if so, whether God's body is male or female; a related issue is how to understand human as being...

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Reflections on the Belote Lectures by Prof. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

Reflections on the Belote Lectures by Prof. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Andres S. TANG This paper is a response to and reflection on the Belote Lectures given by Prof. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary in October, 2006. Firstly ,...

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Rereading Mark's Gospel: We Are Jewish Differently!

Rereading Mark's Gospel: We are Jewish Differently! Solomon HF WONG How would the gospel of Mark be understood? Is it a Christian writing? Or is it a Jewish writing? This paper is an attempt to reread the gospel of Mark as a Jewish writing. To...

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The Community of the Church: A Reflection on Stanley Grenz's Perspective

The Community of the Church: A Reflection on Stanley Grenz's Perspective SUN Yi This essay deals with the question of whether the identities of individual regenerated Christians of a church or the communal nature of the Church takes precedence in...

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Relationship of Theology and Cinema: Means of Mutual Enrichment

Relationship of Theology and Cinema: Means of Mutual Enrichment Jerry E. MOYE Theology can be enriched by study of films just as the world of cinema can be enriched by theologians; there is significant overlapping of concerns. Theologians could be just...

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On the Art of Translating Apologetics: Translating the Argumentative Rhetoric of G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy into Chinese

On the Art of Translating Apologetics: Translating the Argumentative Rhetoric of GK Chesterton's Orthodoxy into Chinese CHONG Yau Yuk Orthodoxy represents the complex record of a remarkable intellectual odyssey of one of the most brilliant...

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