Kerk en Theologie - Volume 75, Issue 4, 2024

This response to the statement ‘Tot heil van heel de werkelijkheid’ questions the use of ‘sacramentality’ as key and criterium for the ecclesiology. It presents Healy's analysis of modern ecclesiology as an alternative approach, raising three questions: Firstly, can the sacramental concept really function as a heuristic model to better understand the theological meaning of the church, or is the concept too slippery for that? Second Read More

In response to ‘Tot heil van heel de werkelijkheid’, this article argues that the concepts of church and sacrament need to be considered more pneumatologically and eschatologically. Not only the concept of church ought to be understood in the sense that church is always ‘in the process of becoming’; the sacrament must also be understood in non-static event-like terms. The biblical concept from which the word ‘sacrament’ Read More