Marking the church : essays in ecclesiology / edited by Greg Peters and Matt Jenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Greg, editor.

Jenson, Matt, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mission of the church.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2016.

Summary:

More than one person has joked over the years that Evangelical believers do not have an ecclesiology. In one sense, that is absurd: Evangelical churches (especially if you include Pentecostals in that group) are some of the fastest-growing, most vibrant churches in the world. Evangelicals are proclaiming the gospel, praising the Lord, reading the Bible, and loving the poor. But there is a case to be made that the Evangelical devotion to the mission of the church has left Evangelicals with little time to reflect on the church itself. In this collection of essays, first given at annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, the authors take time to reflect on the nature of the church in an Evangelical context, asking after the way in which it is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.

Contents:

What makes a multi-site church one church? / John Hammett

Online churches and Christian community : does Christian fellowship require embodied presence? / Robert Herrington

Who is Bonhoeffer for us today? The ecclesiological center of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology / Taylor Worley

Sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy : ontological union and the holiness of the church / Jim Larsen

The splendor of holiness : the church as the theatre of divine beauty / Taylor Worley

The church curved in on itself : sin, holiness, communion, and mission / Matt Jenson

Embodying faithfulness : new monastic retrieval and the Christian imagination / Kent Eilers

The "C" in Catholic / John Halsey Wood Jr.

The search for visible Catholicity and the danger of boundary-drawing : lessons from John Nevin and Richard Hooker / W. Bradford Littlejohn

An instrumental explication of George Hunsinger's eucharistic real predication / James M. Arcadi

The pool whose name means "sent" : John and the Apostolic destiny of the church / Joseph L. Mangina

One holy, Catholic, and missional church : Hans Urs von Balthasar on the church's identity and mission / Eugene R. Schlesinger

"Christ clothed with His gospel" : Apostolicity and the deposit of faith in the thought of T.F. Torrance / Joel Scandrett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498279703

1498279708