Exploring Ecclesiology An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction

Name: Exploring Ecclesiology An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction
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ISBN: 9781587431739

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Edition: 2009

Authors: Brad Harper, Paul Louis Metzger

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In this introduction to ecclesiology, respected scholars Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger offer a solidly evangelical yet ecumenical survey of the church in mission and doctrine. Combining biblical, historical, and cultural analysis, this comprehensive text explores the church as a Trinitarian, eschatological, worshiping, sacramental, serving, ordered, cultural, and missional community. It also offers practical application, addressing contemporary church life issues such as women in ministry, evangelism, social action, consumerism in church growth trends, ecumenism, and the church in postmodern culture. The book will appeal to all who are interested in church doctrine, particularly…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Brazos Press
Publication date: 3/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Brad Harper (PhD, St. Louis University) is professor of theology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. He is the college adviser for The Institute for Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins and the book review editor for Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture. He has also worked as a pastor and church planter. Paul Louis Metzger (PhD, King's College London) is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary and director of its Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins. He is the editor of the journal Cultural Encounters and the author of Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer… Church.

Paul Louis Metzger is the author of the award-winning book Consuming Jesus and director of the Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins, which produces the journal Cultural Encounters.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Church as a Trinitarian Community: The Being-Driven Church



The Trinitarian Church Confronts American Individualism



The Church as an Eschatological Community



Eschatology, the Church, and Ecology



The Church as a Worshipping Community



The Worshipping Church Engages Culture



The Church as a Sacramental Community



Sacraments and the Search for the Holy Grail



The Church as a Serving Community



Church Discipline-The Lost Element of Service



The Church as an Ordered Community



The Role of Women in the Ordered Community



The Church as a Cultural Community: Christ, Culture, and the Sermon on the Mount Community



Getting Past the Ghettoizing of the Gospel in Today's Culture



The Church as a Missional Community: The Being-Driven Church



From Building Programs to Building God's Missional Kingdom


A Postmodern Postscript


Recommended Readings


Appendix: Types of Ecclesiology


Notes


Subject Index


Scripture Index