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Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century

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Availability:In StockContributor:Cheryl M. PetersonPublish date:2013-05-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fortress PressISBN-13:9780800698812ISBN-10:800698819UPC:9780800698812Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, Christian ChurchBook Topic:Ecclesiology, SystematicSize:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCBB5W194J

Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purposewhat churches "do"but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they areto reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves.

To do this, she places the questions of the church's identity and mission into a conversation with the primary ecclesiological paradigms of the past century: the neo-Reformation concept of the church as a "word event" and the ecumenical paradigms of the church as "communion." She argues that these two paradigms assume a context of cultural Christendom that no longer existsfocused on the church that is gatheredrather than the missional church that is sent out.

Peterson suggests instead 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 identityspecifically, 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Fortress PressISBN-13:9780800698812ISBN-10:800698819UPC:9780800698812Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, Christian ChurchBook Topic:Ecclesiology, SystematicSize:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCBB5W194J
Peterson, Cheryl M.: -

Cheryl M. Peterson is associate professor of systematic theology at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Her scholarly works include contributions to Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives(Fortress Press, 2010) and Critical Issues in Ecclesiology (2011), in addition to numerous articles for professional journals.

Publisher: Fortress Press

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