Apostolic and Prophetic

by Thiessen, Gesa Elsbeth

• ISBN13: 9781608998135
• ISBN10: 1608998134
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-11
• Publisher: Cascade Books

Summary

Apostolic and Prophetic promotes a vision of the church as apostolic, ecumenical, and radical. It explores the meaning of each of these ecclesial marks and their intrinsic connections. The book thus draws a wide span between the apostolic past (tradition) and a radical perspective on the present and future ecumenical church.

Author Biography

Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen lectures in systematic theology at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, and at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Wales, Lampeter. She has published: several books including, among others, Ecumenical Ecclesiology (2009), Theological Aesthetics: A Reader (2004), and Theology and Modern Irish Art (1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Apostolicity: Past, Present, Future
Ad fontes: Apostolicity in the Early Church	p. 3
Apostolicity in Select Ecumenical Documents of the Anglican, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic Churches	p. 19
Looking Ahead: Possibilities and Challenges Ecclesiology and Ecumenical Dialogue	p. 40
Unity, Diversity, and Ecumenical Praxis
Denominations: Churches in (Post)modernity The Lutheran Church (A Case Study)	p. 67
Ecumenism in Praxis: Critical Observations on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity	p. 89
Towards a Radical Church
A Theology of Liberation: Dorothee Solle	p. 109
A New Left Church? Terry Eagleton	p. 127
Conclusion: Towards an Apostolic, Ecumenical Radical and Prophetic Church	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 185
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