The community of the word :
The community of the word : toward an evangelical ecclesiology /
Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier, editors.
- Downers Grove, Ill. : Leicester, England : InterVarsity Press ; Apollos, c2005.
- 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I: The church in "evangelical" theologies : looking back -- The church in evangelical theologies, past and future / D.G. Hart -- The fundamental dispensation of evangelical ecclesiology / Dennis L. Okholm -- Practicing church : evangelical ecclesiologies at the end of modernity / Jonathan R. Wilson -- Part II: Locating the church dogmatically -- The church and the perfection of God / John Webster -- "The visible attests the invisible" / John Webster -- The church as missional community / Darrell L. Guder -- Part III: The church as moral community -- Inclusivism, idolatry, and the survival of the (fittest) faithful / William J. Abraham -- "Able to instruct one another" : the church as a community of moral discourse / Allen Verhey -- Part IV: The church as sacramental community -- Beyond theocracy and individualism : the significance ofJohn Howard Yoder's eccesiology for evangelicalism / Craig A. Carter -- The church as "sacrament" / Gary D. Badcock -- Sacramental ecclesiology / Ellen T. Charry -- Part V: Locating the church culturally -- The church as social theory : a reformed engagement with radical orthodoxy / James K.A. Smith -- The desire of the church / Willie James Jennings -- Spaces for an evangelical ecclesiology / William A. Dyrness -- Conclusion: the body of Christ, the bread of heaven / Ellen T. Charry.
0830827978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004025504
Church.
BV 600.3 / .C66 2005
262
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I: The church in "evangelical" theologies : looking back -- The church in evangelical theologies, past and future / D.G. Hart -- The fundamental dispensation of evangelical ecclesiology / Dennis L. Okholm -- Practicing church : evangelical ecclesiologies at the end of modernity / Jonathan R. Wilson -- Part II: Locating the church dogmatically -- The church and the perfection of God / John Webster -- "The visible attests the invisible" / John Webster -- The church as missional community / Darrell L. Guder -- Part III: The church as moral community -- Inclusivism, idolatry, and the survival of the (fittest) faithful / William J. Abraham -- "Able to instruct one another" : the church as a community of moral discourse / Allen Verhey -- Part IV: The church as sacramental community -- Beyond theocracy and individualism : the significance ofJohn Howard Yoder's eccesiology for evangelicalism / Craig A. Carter -- The church as "sacrament" / Gary D. Badcock -- Sacramental ecclesiology / Ellen T. Charry -- Part V: Locating the church culturally -- The church as social theory : a reformed engagement with radical orthodoxy / James K.A. Smith -- The desire of the church / Willie James Jennings -- Spaces for an evangelical ecclesiology / William A. Dyrness -- Conclusion: the body of Christ, the bread of heaven / Ellen T. Charry.
0830827978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004025504
Church.
BV 600.3 / .C66 2005
262