Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective

Abstract

John Flett’s major work on apostolicity rejects any understanding that privileges cultivation over communication, and that understands the church as a culture to which Christians must acculturate. Rather, building on Johannes Hoekendijk’s ecclesiology in dialogue with insights from World Christianity, apostolicity needs to be understood as the church’s constant moving across boundaries, faithful to Christ, the only ground of apostleship.