Church and Religious Other

by Mannion, Gerard

• ISBN13: 9780567032867
• ISBN10: 0567032868
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

This volume brings together the prestigious speakers at the inaugural Church in Our Times Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope to explore themes such as questions of ecclesial and religious identity in these post-modern times, the advent of neo-exclusivism, d

Table of Contents

Ecclesiological Investigation: A New International Research Network
Foreword: Church: The Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity
Church and the Grace of Otherness: Exploring Questions of Truth, Unity and Diversity	p. 1
Ecumenical and Pluralist Contexts and Questions
Ecumenical Questions on Women and Church	p. 23
The Whole Household of God (oikos): Some Ecclesiological Perspectives	p. 41
Culture, Worship and Power: A Case Study of South India	p. 57
The Quest for Pakistani Christian Identity: A Narrative of Religious Other as Liberative Comparative Ecclesiology	p. 71
Christianity, Feminism and the Religious Other: Beyond Eurocentrism	p. 104
Roman Catholicism and its Religious 'Others': Contemporary Challenges	p. 126
Church, Inclusivity and Diversity
A Community of the Question: Inclusive Ecclesiology	p. 156
'Being Nice in Church': Rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion	p. 168
The Eucharist: A Meal with Friends	p. 182
'By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distrest': Anglicanism after the Windsor Report	p. 194
Church: Law, Community and Witness	p. 209
Constructive Explorations for the Future
Should the Church Change?	p. 221
The Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Musings	p. 232
Dialogue as Tradition: The Collective Journey towards Truth	p. 247
A Question of Balance: Unity and Diversity in the Life and Mission of the Church	p. 256
Hoping to Learn: An Approach to Ecclesiology	p. 265
Index	p. 279
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