A reflection on the question of the definition of the Church
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Is it possible to elaborate an exact definition of the Church, which is able to accomplish its totality? It is verified that the ecclesiological argument lacks a proper differentiation between explicitly descriptive or conceptual notions and metaphorical use of abstractive procedures, that demonstrates the essential elements for a proper understanding of the Church. From a critique to the thought of J. Hamer, the author delineates a hypothesis with implications based on a proper terminology, so that the complex nature of the Church and its mysterious character incorporate the process of theological systematization in question. Thus it scroll through a trajectory that approaches the theme of knowability of the Church and its forms, as well the issue of its definability and its means - which illuminate aspects of the proposal for a renewed ecclesiology, whose thought is articulated around the notion of communion.
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