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020			_a9781451426380
020			_a1451426380
020			_z9780800698812
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040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aBV600.3 _b.P488 2013
100	1		_aPeterson, Cheryl M., _eauthor.
245	0	0	_aWho is the church? _h[electronic resource] : _ban ecclesiology for the twenty-first century / _cCheryl M. Peterson.
260			_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2013 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_aMinneapolis [Minnesota] : _bFortress Press, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 153 pages))
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aMany 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aMission of the church.
650		0	_aChurch.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z0800698819 _z9780800698812
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781451426380/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c32915 _d32915