In Visible Church-Visible Unity Ola Tjorhom explores central questions in current ecclesiological and ecumenical debates from the perspective of an evangelical catholicity of "the Great Tradition of the Church." Tjorhom shows how the fundamental visibility of the Church and the similarly visible nature of church fellowship is a corrective cover against"invisible" perceptions of these entities. This theme of visibility is developed in view of the sacraments, the ministries, and the mission of the Church.
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Ola Tjorhom, D. Theol., currently serves as professor of dogmatics and ecumenical theology at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway. Previusly he has been a research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, director of the Nordic Ecumenical Institute, and researcher at the Norwegian Foundation for Humanistic Research. His pevious publications include several contributions on ecumenism. ecclesiology, and sacramental theology.
Visible Church-Visible Unity includes "Chapter 1: toward the End of the Reformation Project? The Riddle of Protestantism," "Chapter 2: 'the great tradition of the Church'-An Old Way Forward?" "Chapter 3: The Church-Mother of Faith and Priest of Creation," "Chapter 4: the goal of Visible Unity-Reaffirming Our Commitment," and "Chapter 5: Life in the spirit-toward a 'Materialist' spirituality."
