Between Congregation and Church

Denomination and Christian Life Together

Rev Barry A. Ensign-George (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2019
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-68915-3 (ISBN)

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Denominations are one of the primary ways in which Christians attempt to live in a community based around God. Yet there is very little careful theological analysis of denomination available today.

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	23.11.2018
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-68915-8 / 0567689158
ISBN-13	978-0-567-68915-3 / 9780567689153
Zustand	Neuware