Who is the church?
Peterson, Cheryl M.,
Who is the church? an ecclesiology for the twenty-first century / [electronic resource] : Cheryl M. Peterson. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 153 pages))
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: asking the right question -- 1. Ecclesiology and context in Protestant America -- 2. The Church as word-event -- 3. The Church as communion -- 4. Ecclesiology post-Christendom: the missional Church -- 5. Starting with the Spirit: a narrative method for ecclesiology post-Christendom -- 6. An ecclesiology that "starts with the Spirit": the ecumenical creeds -- Epilogue: a vision for revival.
Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose--what churches "do"--but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are--to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. Peterson suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity--specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology.
9781451426380 1451426380
Mission of the church.
Church.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BV600.3 / .P488 2013
Who is the church? an ecclesiology for the twenty-first century / [electronic resource] : Cheryl M. Peterson. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 153 pages))
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: asking the right question -- 1. Ecclesiology and context in Protestant America -- 2. The Church as word-event -- 3. The Church as communion -- 4. Ecclesiology post-Christendom: the missional Church -- 5. Starting with the Spirit: a narrative method for ecclesiology post-Christendom -- 6. An ecclesiology that "starts with the Spirit": the ecumenical creeds -- Epilogue: a vision for revival.
Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose--what churches "do"--but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are--to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. Peterson suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity--specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology.
9781451426380 1451426380
Mission of the church.
Church.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BV600.3 / .P488 2013