The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church

ISBN-13: 9780415374200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 684 str.

Mannion/Mudge

Opis

The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church, as well as serving as a resource for scholars engaging in ecclesiological debates on a wide variety of issues. It divides into six parts:

• the church in its historical context
• the different denominational traditions
• global perspectives
• methods and debates in ecclesiology
• key concepts and themes
• ecclesiology and other disciplines: social sciences, philosophy, literature and film.

Authoritative, accessible and easily navigable, this book is indispensable for everyone interested in the nature and history of the Christian Church.

Spis treści

Introduction: Ecclesiology – The Nature, Story and Study of the Church  Part 1: Historical Ecclesiology  1. In Search of the Early ‘Church’: The New Testament and the Development of Christian Communities  2. The Church in the Early Christian Centuries - Ecclesiological Consolidation  3. The Church in Medieval Theology  4. Ecclesiology and the Religious Controversy of the Sixteenth Century  5. The Church in the Tridentine and Early Modern Eras  6. The Church in Modern Theology  7. Postmodern Ecclesiologies  Part 2: Ecclesiological ‘Traditions’  8. Ecclesiology in the Orthodox Tradition  9. Lutheran Ecclesiology 

O autorze

Gerard Mannion is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Ecclesiology at Liverpool Hope University where he is alsoProfessor of Ecclesiology and Ethics and Co-director of the Applied Ethics Initiative. His numerous publications include Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality (2003), Readings in Church Authority: Gifts and Challenges for Contemporary Catholicism (co-editor)(2003), and Ecclesiology and Postmodernity – Questions for the Church in Our Times (2007). Lewis S. Mudge was Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology, Emeritus, at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. HeauthoredOne Church: Catholic and Reformed(1963), The Crumbling Walls (1970), The Sense of a People (1992), The Church as Moral Community (1998), Rethinking the Beloved Community (2001), andThe Gift of Responsibility (2008).