{"id":339,"date":"2005-09-12T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T09:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/09\/purple-theology-ecclesiology.html"},"modified":"2005-09-12T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T09:34:53","slug":"purple-theology-ecclesiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/09\/purple-theology-ecclesiology.html","title":{"rendered":"Purple Theology: Ecclesiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What E.B. White, that great writer called the big syllable, can be seen in what Purple Theology will see in ecclesiology. If we are to move beyond the ageless denominational bickering so typical of the Church, we will have to move from independence to in<em>ter<\/em>dependence. The addition of &#8220;ter&#8221; is a big syllable with big ramifications for all of us in the emerging movement. 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