Rethinking the Beloved Community
Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Social Theory
Published on 7. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-7618-1866-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book, drawing for its title upon Josiah Royce's well-known turn of phrase, presents twelve essays, written over forty years of the author's life, which together see ecclesiology as a form of hermeneutical social theory intelligible both to theologians and scholars in the human sciences. This perspective is presented as one in which members of Christian communions, and others of good will, can wrestle in common with contemporary issues of human life in a context open to transcendence. The book is arranged in five parts: Social Reality, Hermeneutics, Ecclesiogenesis, Civil Society, and Householding. An analytical introduction by the author links the essays situationally and conceptually. The principal interlocutors, in addition to Royce, are Paul Ricoeur, Alfred Schutz, Ernst Troeltsch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, G.W.F. Hegel, Robert Bellah, John Rawls, and Juergen Habermas.
Reviews / Votes
For any ecclesiologist the book is worth reading... -- J. Otto (Newlands) * Boekbesprekings * Mudge's vision serves as a critique of contemporary secretarians who seem to have given up on their belief that all people are created in the image of God, and might therefore have something to teach us about their maker. -- Mark D. Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford * The Expository Times * Mudge's vision serves as a critique of contemporary secretarians who seem to have given up on their belief that all people are created in the image of God, and might therefore have something to teach us about their maker. -- Mark D. Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford * The Expository Times * For any ecclesiologist the book is worth reading... -- J. Otto (Newlands) * Boekbesprekings *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-1866-3 (9780761818663)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lewis S. Mudge is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California and the Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology, Emeritus, at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Content
Chapter 1 Foreword by Konrad Raiser Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Searching for Faith's Social Reality Chapter 4 Jesus and the Struggle for the Real Chapter 5 Ecclesia as Counter-Consciousness Chapter 6 The Servant Lord and his Servant People Chapter 7 Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Interpretation Chapter 8 Church and Human Salvation: The Contemporary Dialogue Chapter 9 Thinking in the Community of the Faith: Toward an Ecclesial Hermeneutic Chapter 10 Toward a Hermeneutic for Ecclesiogenesis Chapter 11 Faith, Ethics, and Civil Society Chapter 12 Traditioned Communities and the Good Society: The Search for a Public Philosophy Chapter 13 Remodeling the Household: Ecclesiology and Ethics After Harare Chapter 14 Moral Hospitality for Public Reasoners Chapter 15 Index