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Who is the Church? : an ecclesiology for the twenty-first century /
Many congregations focus on strategy and purpose - what churches "do" - but the author submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are - to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. The author suggests...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Many congregations focus on strategy and purpose - what churches "do" - but the author submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are - to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. The author suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity - specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451426380 1451426380 |