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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2005  
         
  Article:   THE ECCLESIA OF NEW TESTAMENT AND THE INSTITUŢIONAL CHURCH AT EMIL BRUNNER.

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  Abstract:  The Ecclesia of New Testament and the Instituţional Church at Emil Brunner. Representative of Dialectical Theology or Theology of Crisis, Emil Brunner feeds the wish of a return to the forms of primary Church. He affirms that the word eclesia have not to be translated by Church From this wrong translation follows the misundestanding of the greek new testamentary therm, which disignates a real, spiritual, visible brotherhood. Ecclesia is non-worshiping, non-sacramental, but it is a fellowship or community. The real Church is the invisible one. Church is the sacralization or sacramentaly unaderstanding of Christ. The Reform was a trial to restore Ecclesia but an unsuccessful one. Emil Brunner is an adept of branch theory and he remains an opponent of sacramental hierarchy, because the Ecclesia’s organization was of charismatical, spiritual order. Being conscionsly of the importance of ecclesiology in the present epoch Brunner affirms: The problem of Church being is the decisive problem of Theology, and the problem of Church is really the unsettled problem of Protestantism.  
         
     
         
         
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