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Re-visioning the church : an experiment in systematic-historical ecclesiology /
According to longstanding tradition, theology can be thought of as 'faith seeking understanding.' Ecclesiology, then, seeks to understand the theological reality we call church. Re-Visioning the Church, the outcome of nearly two decades of research and writing towards constructing a system...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis [Minnesota] :
Fortress Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface vii
- The structure of systematic ecclesiology
- Engagement with the social sciences in an ecclesiological context
- Categories for the kingdom
- Church: mission, communion, and dimensions
- Structure and ministry
- The first three centuries: founding questions of identity and mission
- The early Middle Ages and the struggle with a cosmological worldview
- The high Middle Ages: deepening the anthropological turn
- An era of reform, conflict, and schism
- The era of the wounded church and the rise of modernity
- Conclusion
- Postscript. Vatican II: toward an ontology of meaning
- Bibliography
- Index.