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Perpetually reforming : a theology of church reform and renewal / John P. Bradbury.
Van Pelt Library BV600.3 .B733 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradbury, John P.
- Series:
- Ecclesiological investigations ; v.14.
- T & T Clark theology
- Ecclesiological investigations ; volume 14
- T&T Clark theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church renewal.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction. The problem with 'Church'
- The Church in the twenty-first century context
- The Church, theology and the theologian
- An outline of the work as a whole
- 2. Visible and Invisible? The contours of a problem
- John Calvin: The dualism of election
- Karl Barth: The dualism of time and eternity
- Locating the 'Problem' of ecclesiological dualisms
- 3. Confessional Identities. The practice of confessing
- Attending to a confessional voice: The Basis of Union of the United Reformed Church
- Re-formation and confessional identities
- 4. Confessional Re-formation: The Example of the Church and the Jewish People. Calvin and classic reformed confessional texts
- Karl Barth and contemporary reformed confessions of faith
- The process of re-formation
- The implications of re-formation
- 5. Biblical Re-formations. Covenantal re-formations
- A covenant with all: Noah and the first covenant
- The covenant with Abraham: The election of a sociality
- The Sinai covenant: The centrality of the practice of law
- New covenants?
- Renewing the canon: Scripture re-reading scripture
- 6. The Covenantal Identity of the Church
- The 'New' covenant in Christ
- Jesus and the extensive ecclesial movement
- Orientations to the future
- Why the Church?
- 7. The Practices of Identity Renewal
- The mediation of social identity: The contribution of 'collective memory'
- Practices of remembrance: Collective memory in the Deuteronomic tradition
- The reformatory practices of the Church
- 8. Toward the Reformation of the Church. The Church and the world
- Finding our orientations
- Reforming and renewing scriptural practices
- Perpetual reformation.
- ISBN:
- 9780567644091
- 056764409X
- OCLC:
- 841180042
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