Being human: bodies, minds, persons
Being human: bodies, minds, persons
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成为人类：身体、思想、人
DOI：
10.1080/1474225x.2018.1483572
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
Ryan Green
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作者：
Ryan Green
教会或完美的“教会形象”，而是“确定教会的具体行为和集体生活实际上如何与上帝的代理一致”（148）。我从这个迷人的工作中产生的问题是由“包容”的概念引起的，这个概念现在在我和拉德纳都属于的圣公会的某些部分非常普遍。这种包容的言辞背后似乎隐藏着这样一种想法：如果教会的圈子被吸引得足够广泛，每个人——或者至少是所有思想正确的自由主义者——都可以被吸引进去。既然Radner把教会讨论从试图说什么是真正的教会，从确定教会最准确的“形象”，他是否因此支持这种对“包容”的有点问题的理解？我认为这是对他的严重误解：教会仍然是她，就像以色列仍然是她一样，即使她对召唤和激励她的主没有反应或不忠诚。像以色列一样，教会以其各种不同的表现形式一直在经受审判，直到时间的终结。有时这种审判将是非常严厉的：例如，上帝谴责教会的某些部分完全灭绝，然而，即使当教会受到严厉的审判时，她也不会因此停止她是谁，“因为他说，‘我总不撇下你，也不丢弃你’”（希伯来书13.5）。
Church or a perfect ‘image of the Church’, but rather, ‘to identify how the Church’s specific acts and collective life are in fact congruent with God’s agency’ (148). The question that arises for me from this fascinating work is prompted by the concept of ‘inclusion’ that is now very common in certain parts of the Anglican communion to which both Radner and I belong. Underlying the inclusive rhetoric seems to be the idea that if the circle of the Church is drawn widely enough, everyone – or at least all right-thinking liberal people – can be drawn into it. Since Radner steers ecclesiological discussion away from trying to say what Church truly is, and from identifying the most accurate ‘images’ of it, does he thereby espouse this somewhat problematic understanding of ‘inclusion’? I think this would be to misread him seriously: the Church remains what she is, just as Israel remains what she is, even when she is unresponsive or unfaithful to the Lord who calls and animates her. Like Israel, the Church in its various different manifestations is always undergoing judgment and will be until the end of time. Sometimes this judgment will be very severe: for example, God condemns some parts of the Church to complete extinction, and yet even when the Church is severely judged, she does not thereby stop being who she is, ‘for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you”’ (Hebrews 13.5).