Christian Community in History: Ecclesial Existence, Volume 3

The first 2 volumes of Roger Haight's Christian Community in History received enormous critical attention. Of volume 2, a reviewer in the Anglican Theological Review wrote: "This work is worthy of celebration...anyone who cares about the theology of the church must read it." Those volumes of Christian Community in History described the historical diversity of the church across its history (up to the Reformation in vol. 1) and among the churches (since the Reformation in vol. 2). By contrast, vol. 3 is an attempt to describe what the churches possess in common, i.e., to retrieve ecclesiological constants from history reaching back to scriptural origins in order to construct and portray the common ecclesial existence shared by the churches. In more traditional terms, it aims to find the apostolicity, the catholicity, and the unity amidst the plurality of the churches. Part I THE NOTION OF A CONSTRUCTIVE TRANSDENOMINATIONAL ECCLESIOLOGY 1. WHERE WE DWELL IN COMMON 2. FROM HISTORICAL TO CONSTRUCTIVE ECCLESIOLOGY Part II ECCLESIAL EXISTENCE 3. THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH 4. ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH 5. MEMBERSHIP IN THE CHURCH 6. ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH 7. CHURCH IN RELATION TO THE WORLD 8. ECCLESIAL EXISTENCE AND PARTIAL COMMUNION

Titel: Christian Community in History: Ecclesial Existence, Volume 3
Förlag: Bloomsbury