Telling the Churches' Stories

by Wengert, Timothy J.; Brockwell, Charles W., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780802805560
• ISBN10: 0802805566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Divisions among Christian communions have sometimes arisen from and are often sustained by vastly different accounts of the origins and development of important historical events. Telling the Churches' Stories takes a critical look at the practice of writing church history and challenges historians of Christianity to be self-consciously ecumenical in the practice of their craft.
The result of a study done by the Faith and Order Working Group of the National Council of Churches from 1988 to 1991, which studied the interaction between views of the history of Christianity and problems in ecumenical relations, the essays in this volume evaluate and employ fourteen principles for writing Christian history from an ecumenical perspective.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Christian History in Ecumenical Perspective: Principles of Historiography	p. 3
The Fourteen Canons: Some Sidelong Critical Notes	p. 21
The Global Context of Ecumenical History	p. 37
The Arian Heresy?	p. 55
Katharina Schutz Zell: A Protestant Reformer	p. 73
The Role of History in the Theological Enterprise	p. 91
Reflections on an Ecumenical-Historical Experiment	p. 105
The Historiography of Christianity in Ecumenical Perspective: A Bibliographic Essay	p. 121
Contributors to This Study	p. 133
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