| Abstrakt: |
This paper responds to the current debate about future models of the church and their potential for reform. It first attempts to demonstrate through a historical examination the specific role that models of the church play in shaping spiritual life, from what impulses they emerge, and how they work with reform ideas. Two examples are presented in the next sequence to suggest possible functional models of the church that have been developed under contemporary pressures of secularization. The paper concludes with selected questions that the church may ask in the context of discussing future models, pointing out the limits of the presented models and the possible outcomes of such a dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
