This volume brings together the prestigious speakers at the inaugural Church in Our Times Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope, throughout the first 4 months of 2006, and invited contributors from and addressing wider international contexts Africa, Sri Lanka, India and the United States. The volume explores themes such as questions of ecclesial and religious identity in these post-modern times, the advent of neo-exclusivism, divisions within the contemporary Roman Catholic and Anglicans churches, inter-faith relations and dialogue, questions of sexuality and Christian ministry, contemporary understandings of ecclesial authority, teaching and tradition, the inter-relation between the church and the kingdom of God today, an Asian appraisal of Pope Benedicts first sermon, inculturation and the rhetoric and reality of the notion of Church as Christianitys most distinctive and defining feature and constructive proposals for ecumenical ways forward in the future. The commonality and coherence of the papers, along with the manner in which a number of them together contribute towards making a cumulative case upon similar issues of concern for the church in our times, constitute a major strength of this collection. This volume will interest faculty and students engaged in the study of the contemporary church, ecumenism, global Christianity, secularity and inter-religious dialogue, as well as appealing to ministers and pastors as well as the general reader excited by the most pressing debates pertaining to the church in these times.
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Ecclesiological Investigations: A New International Research Network - Gerard Mannion Acknowledgements Contributors Foreword: Church: The Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity - Keith Ward Introduction: Church and the Grace of Otherness: Exploring Questions of Truth, Unity and Diversity - Gerard Mannion Part I. Ecumenical and Pluralist Contexts and Questions Ecumenical Questions on Women and Church - Phyllis Zagano The Whole Household of God (oikos): Some Ecclesiological Perspectives - Ernst Conradie Culture, Worship and Power: A Cast Study of South India - Paul M. Collins The Quest for Pakistani Christian Identity: A narrative of Religious Other as Liberative comparative Ecclesiology - John O'Brien Christianity, Feminism and the Religious Other: Beyond Eurocentrism - Jenny Daggers Roman Catholicism and its Religious 'Others': Contemporary Challenges - Gerard Mannion Part II. Church, Inclusivity and Diversity A Community of the question: Inclusive Ecclesiology - Steven Shakespeare 'Being Nice in Church': rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion - Mary McClintock Fulkerson The Eucharist: A Meal with Friends - Steve Summers 'By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distrest': Anglicanism after the Windsor Report - Mark Chapman Church: Law, Community and Witness - George Pattison Part III. Constructive Explorations for the Future Should the Church Change? - Bernard Hoose The Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Musings - David McLoughlin Dialogue as Tradition: The Collective Journey towards Truth - Jayne Hoose A Question of Balance: Unity and Diversity in the Life and Mission of the Church - Ola Tjohorn Hoping to Learn: An Approach to Ecclesiology - Kenneth Wilson Index
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The writers are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist Scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. Several have broad international experience. The essays are thought-provoking and open up many areas for students and scholars of ecclesiology to learn how, in the words of Levinas "the others must be let be and not cast in our image".
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Bringing together the prestigious speakers from the inaugural Church in Our Times Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope University, this volume explores key current affairs in ecclesiology.
Will be of interest to faculty and students engaged in the study of the contemporary church, as well as ministers, pastors and the general reader.
Ecclesiological Investigations brings together quality research and inspiring debates in ecclesiology worldwide from a network of international scholars, research centres and projects in the field.

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ISBN
9780567433916
Publisert
2011-09-22
Utgiver
Vendor
T.& T.Clark Ltd
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
314

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Biographical note

Gerard Mannion is Director of the Centre for Catholic Thought and Culture and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA.