Church
Published on 27. October 2017
200 pages
978-1-4982-9710-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is an introduction to thinking theologically about the Christian church--what is known as ecclesiology. The book covers background questions of conception, history, differences among separated Christian churches, and several modern approaches to the study of the church. It also introduces readers to a specific scriptural way of thinking about the church centered on mission, that takes into account problems associated with past approaches, and sensitive to contemporary concerns with the reality of Judaism and other national identities in a global context.
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Ephraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. An Anglican priest, he has worked in several parts of the world. His books include The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West (1998), A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (2012), and A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality and the Shape of the Christian Life (2016).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- The Midst of a New Era
- Assuming-and Loving-the Church
- Contested Collectives
- Chapter 1: "The Wounds I Received in the House of My Friends," Part I
- Defending the Church: The Apologetic Roots of Ecclesiology
- Ideologies and Options
- Images of the Church
- Ecclesiology: Whose Church?
- Chapter 2: "The Wounds I Received in the House of My Friends," Part II
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Shaped by Time
- Chapter 3: Talking about the Church
- Translating Church
- Scriptural Churches
- Divine Word, Divine Act
- The Church as a Divinely Created People
- Chapter 4: Talking About a People
- God Creates by Kind: The Origin of the Nations
- The Christian "We"
- The Animating Spirit of "We"
- Adam to Adam: The Election of the Church
- Chapter 5: Arguing about the Church
- The Church Is Ordered by God for the Sake of All Other Nations
- The Church Is Judged with All Other Nations
- Formation: The Church Is Structured like the Nations, in Its Relation to Past and Present
- Chapter 6: The Church as Israel
- Some Twentieth-Century Developments in Ecclesiology: People of God and Communion
- The Church as Israel: Figural Ecclesiology
- Israel, Jew, and Gentile
- The Missionary Church as Repentant Israel
- The Church and the Nations: Jacob and Esau
- Chapter 7: The Figure of the Church
- A People Called
- Animated by God
- Gathering
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
