What is it about?
Ecumenical impasse over necessity and shape of three fold ministry--bishop/priest/deacon--and how the impasse might be overcome by by a more expansive view of three-fold ministries in non-episcopal churches.
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Why is it important?
Stark YES-NO views of three-fold ministry creates a gulf between episcopally-ordered churches and non-episcopal churches. Each position can be challenged to appreciate the other by seeing underlying three-foldedness in the ministries of a wide variety of churches.
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This page is a summary of: Ordering the Church: Ecumenism and the Three-Fold Ministry, Ecclesiology, January 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/17455316-01601005.
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