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

Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9781451426380
ISBN-13 : 1451426380
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Book Synopsis Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century by : Cheryl M. Peterson

Download or read book Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century written by Cheryl M. Peterson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 purpose-what churches "do"-but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are-to 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 exists-focused on the church that is gathered-rather than the missional church that is sent out.


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