Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:23:47 BST CiteULike: mauricelee's ecclesiology http://www.citeulike.org/user/mauricelee/tag/ecclesiology CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/mauricelee/article/2702386 <i>Ecclesiology, Vol. 3, No. 2. (1 May 2007), pp. 171-193.</i><br /><br />As our practical reason is healed in the resurrection life of Christ, there may be a community in which many agents act as one. Yet there is a difficulty in understanding the idea of a community of action; and in the first of these two Richard Hooker lectures I explore this difficulty, in pursuit of an answer to the question: Can the Church be a moral community? And can such a community be a forum in which questions are actually resolved? This takes us on to the question of the second lecture: Is the Church a community under authority? The Church’s form may be described in terms of a tension between an outer and an inner identity. How does the inner identity of the Church come to shape its outer forms? It does so through the acknowledgment of Scripture, which judges, corrects, criticizes the practices of the Church, and as the message heard in Scripture and the doctrine formed in reflection on it is taken into its practical reasoning. What kind of community is the church? Oliver O’donovan doi:10.1177/1744136607073345 Ecclesiology, Vol. 3, No. 2. (1 May 2007), pp. 171-193. 2008-04-22T14:40:42-00:00 2007 Ecclesiology 3 2 171 193 ecclesiology