Abstract

The disparity of NT ecclesiologies is shown forth here by some epistles from the Pauline school : 1 Co, Eph, the Pastoral Epistles, and 1 P. The bringing together of these source texts in the canon leads to an inevitable theological confrontation. Such a diversity defies attempts at harmonizing. To bring out the theological unity of the NT one must start not from the circumference and work towards the centre, running the risk of compromise solutions («diversity reconciled »), but from the centre and work towards the circumference, running the risk of controversy («plural unity »).

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