
Ruptured Bodies
A Theology of the Church Divided
Eugene R. Schlesinger(Author)
Fortress Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 28. May 2024
Book
Hardback
205 pages
978-1-5064-8967-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because it will not describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge; neither dismissing, excusing, or minimizing it. What must the church, be given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesiology of the divided church despite that idea's seeming impossibility, because such an ecclesiology is precisely what we need"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 163 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-8967-4 (9781506489674)
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05/2024
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Person
Eugene R. Schlesinger is lecturer in religious studies at Santa Clara University. He is the author of several books, including Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology (2017), Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism (2019), and Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross (2023). He specializes in systematic theology.