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A typology of church and sect. The sects within the church - The theological definition of “church and sect” results in an untenable duality. The sociology of religion has tried in the beginning of this century to clear up this social phenomenon by a typological approach. We found that former studies usually took the typology of church and sect as static types of a religious community. We want to approach it in a dichotomic field where each church needs the sect-form and each sect the church-form. The sect is a group-form wanting to remain in existence on the horizontal solidarity dynamism; the church is a group-form wanting to remain on the vertical church-order dynamism. Neither the sect-form, nor the church-form is ever separately realized in its ideal form. The sect-items can purify the church-form continually and urge it to a critical attitude; whereas the church-items can protect the sect-form from falling into anarchy and utter dictatorship.
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How to Cite: Vranckx, L. (1968) “Typologie van kerk en sekte: het sektarisme in de kerk”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 13(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95804