Between Congregation and Church
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-65834-0 (ISBN)
Between Congregation and Church offers a constructive theological understanding of denomination, showing its role as an intermediary structure between congregation and church. It places denomination and other intermediary structures within the doctrine of the church. Barry Ensign-George reviews work by theologians and church historians that can contribute to a constructive theological understanding of denomination. The book highlights particular developments in the history of the church that established preconditions for the emergence of denomination. Exploration of unity and diversity is central to this analysis, and individual chapters offer theological analyses of the unity and the diversity to which the Christians are called. Finally, denomination has often been a vehicle for sin, and the relationship between denomination and sin is considered.
Between Congregation and Church addresses a major gap in contemporary theology: the failure to offer substantive theological analysis of denomination, a major way Christians together live their faith today.
Barry A. Ensign-George served for 12 years as Associate for Theology in the denominational offices of the Presbyterian Church, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to Denomination: Assessing an Ecclesiological Category (T&T Clark).
INTRODUCTION
Part I: Considering Denomination
PART I: PREFACE: Considering Denomination: Forerunners
Chapter
1: PHILIP SCHAFF AND THE MULTIFORM CHURCH
2: H. RICHARD NIEBUHR
3: THE CHURCH HISTORIANS: WINTHROP HUDSON,
SIDNEY MEAD, RUSSELL E. RICHEY
PART I: SUMMARY
Part II: Denomination, Diversity, and Unity
PART II: PREFACE
Chapter
4: DENOMINATION: A NORMATIVE DEFINITION
5: THE DIVERSITY TO WHICH WE ARE CALLED
6: THE UNITY TO WHICH WE ARE CALLED
7: THE COMMUNITY TO WHICH WE ARE CALLED
PART II: SUMMARY
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.11.2017 |
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Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 588 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-567-65834-1 / 0567658341 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-567-65834-0 / 9780567658340 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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