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- Title
Shaking the 'House of God': An Ecclesial Cliché and the Hidden Curriculum.
- Authors
Harkness, Allan
- Abstract
The power of the hidden curriculum over the explicit curriculum is well-attested in education. In congregations this is witnessed when their espoused theology is different from their tacit theology. This article explores how the un-nuanced use of the phrase 'the house of God' may affect in unhelpful ways how congregations' members perceive who they are, and how they could express their ministry and mission. An overview of the biblical usage of 'the house of God', with its almost total absence in the New Testament, leads into a discussion of the place of buildings in the early churches as 'hospitable spaces for the people of God'. Implications are drawn for whether congregational leaders hold a domus dei or domus ecclesiae mind-set.
- Subjects
THEOLOGICAL education; RELIGIOUS gatherings; CHRISTIAN missions; CHURCH buildings; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600
- Publication
International Congregational Journal, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
1472-2089
- Publication type
Article