Christian Community In History: Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology
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ISBN: 0826416314 / Publisher: Continuum, March 2005
A veteran teacher of theology in Jesuit schools and writer of award-winning books, Haight looks at different ecclesiologies that have emerged over the past five century, in order to convey how the Christian church adjusts to new times, places, and cultures as it moves through history. He focuses on selected authors and texts that represent innovations. The first volume addresses historical ecclesiology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"Ecclesiology from below," as it operates in this work, is directed to history; it moves through the actual church of history to ecclesiology or to an understanding of the church both as it is and as it should be. In the first volume that passage was fairly explicit because comprehensive ecclesiologies in our sense did not exist. In this volume ecclesiology itself becomes much more directly the subject matter of the book, but without losing sight of concrete history and the degree to which these ecclesiologies are historically conditioned. Put somewhat differently, the main goal of this "comparative ecclesiology" is not simply to lay down one after another different ecclesiologies that emerged over the last five hundred years, although that describes the book with empirical accuracy. Its larger intent is to show the richness, vitality, and creativity of the whole church as it moves through history, adjusting to new times, places, and cultures.
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