Explorations in analytic ecclesiology : that they may be one / Joshua Cockayne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockayne, Joshua, 1990- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in analytic theology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in analytic theology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church--Unity.

Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In the first book-length study of ecclesiology in analytic theology, Joshua Cockayne offers a vision of the Church, according to which the Church is united as the body of Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit, despite the apparent diversity of the Church in its gathered, particular forms.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Preface

1. Analytic Theology and Ecclesiology

2. The Scope of the Discussion

3. One Church: A Summary

Acknowledgements

Contents

1. That They May Be One: The Individual and the Community of the Church

1. That They May Be One

2. Individualism vs Collectivism

3. Bonhoeffer's Philosophically Informed Ecclesiology

4. Individualism and Its Implications

5. Clarifying the Debate

6. Conclusion

2. One Spirit: The Church as a Group Agent

1. The Unbearable Paradox of Ecclesiology

2. The Church as the Body of Christ through the Agency of the Spirit

3. Group Realism Expanded

4. Group Realism and the Church

5. Conclusion

3. One Lord Jesus Christ: The Church as the Socially Extended Body of Christ

1. The Church as the Body of Christ

2. Functionalism and Extended Minds

3. Arcadi and Cross on Theological Applications of Active Externalism

4. The Church as the Extended Body of Christ

4. One Baptism: Group Membership and Rites of Initiation

1. Social Ontology and Initiation

2. Promising and Group Membership

3. Membership and Authorization

4. Infant Baptism and Group Membership

5. One Bread, One Cup: The Eucharist as a Sacrament of Unity

1. More than Metaphysics: Analytic Theology and Eucharistic Unity

2. Human-to-Human Unity through the Eucharistic Ritual

3. Eucharistic Unity in Christ

4. Conclusion

6. Acting as One: Liturgy and Group Action

1. The Gathered Church

2. Underhill's Principles of Corporate Worship

3. An Analytic Account of Group Liturgical Action

4. Representative Action

5. Corporate Silence

7. One Purpose: Extensive Liturgy and Protest

1. Go in Peace to Love and Serve the Lord.

2. Systemic Abuse in the Life of the Church

3. Injustice and the People of God

4. Social Justice as Joint Commitment

5. Liturgical Protest

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Cockayne, Joshua Explorations in Analytic Ecclesiology

ISBN:

0-19-193324-4

0-19-265896-4

0-19-265895-6