A New Reformed Catholicity
Catholicity and Confessing in Reformed Ecclesiology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.38318Keywords:
Reformed ecclesiology, confessions, catholicity, dangerous memory, globalizationAbstract
Reformed ecclesiology suffers from a lack of a concrete sense of catholicity, a lack that easily shatters unity in the church. This article broadly sketches a way in which Reformed confessions and the practice of confessing can help fill that lack, drawing from Robert Schreiter's The New Catholicity. By understanding confessing in terms of re-membering dangerous memories, Reformed catholicity has the potential for enabling the church to be a unifying witness in an age where globalizing forces have fragmented societies and inflamed troubling sentiments.
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