Christian community in history, 2 : Comparative Ecclesiology
Christian community in history, 2: Comparative Ecclesiology / Haight, Roger S.J.
New York: Continuum, 2005. —
ББК 262.009 / Hai / 2005 / V.2
Зміст:
Preface--vii Introduction--1 Part I -- The Church in the Sixteenth Century 1. Luther's Ecclesiology--13 2. Calvin's Ecclesiology--82 3. The Church of England--148 4. Anabaptists, Baptist, and Roman Ecclesiology--218 Part II -- The Church in the Modern Period 5. Modern Ecclesiology--291 6. Twentieth-Century Ecclesiology: The World Council of Churches, Vatican II, and Liberatioin Ecclesiology--367 7. Twentieth-Century Ecclesiology: Orthodox and Pentacostal Ecclesiologies and BEM--430 Conclusion: Ecclesiology in the Twenty-First Century--496 Index--499
Анотація:
"Ecclesiology from below," as it operates in this work, is directed to history; it moves through the actual chuch of history to ecclesiology or to an understanding of the church both as it is and as it should be. In the first volume, which delf with the first fifteen centuries of the Christian church, that passage was fairly explicit because comprehensive ecclesiologies in the modern sense did not exist. In this volume, from the Reformation to the present, 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 various ecclesiologies, Protestant and Catholic, are historically conditioned. Put somewhat differently, the main goal of this "comparative ecclesiology" is not simply to lay down, one after another, the 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.