Christian Community in History Volume 1 Historical Ecclesiology

by Haight, Roger D.

• ISBN13: 9780826416308
• ISBN10: 0826416306
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441124302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Drawing upon the methodology developed in his Dynamics of Theology (1990) and exemplified in Jesus Symbol of God (1999), Roger Haight, in this magisterial work, achieves what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below. In contrast to traditional ecclesiology from above, which is abstract, idealist, and ahistorical, ecclesiology from below is concrete, realist, and historically conscious. In this first of two volumes, Haight charts the history of the church's self-understandings from the origins of the church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle Ages. In volume 2 Haight develops a comparative ecclesiology based on the history and diverse theologies of the worldwide Christian movement from the Reformation to the present. While the ultimate focus of the work falls on the structure of the church and its theological self-understanding, it tries to be faithful to the historical, social, and political reality of the church in each period.

Author Biography

Roger Haight, S.J., is professor of systematic theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Part I THE QUESTION OF METHOD
Historical Ecclesiology	17	(52)
Ecclesiology from Above	18	(8)
Toward an Ecclesiology from Below	26	(30)
Ecclesiology from Below	56	(13)
Part II THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH
Genesis of the Church	69	(72)
Emerging Church: A Historical Narrative	71	(18)
A Social-Anthropological Account	89	(21)
A Theological Account	110	(15)
Principles for a Historical Ecclesiology	125	(16)
The Pre-Constantinian Church	141	(58)
Historical Development	142	(10)
Social and Theological Analysis	152	(24)
Description of the Pre-Constantinian Church	176	(15)
Principles for a Historical Ecclesiology	191	(8)
The Post-Constantinian Church: 300-600	199	(68)
Historical Development	200	(19)
Social and Theological Analysis	219	(23)
Description of the Post-Constantinian Church	242	(14)
Principles for a Historical Ecclesiology	256	(11)
Part III THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The Gregorian Reform and the New Medieval Church	267	(78)
Historical Development	268	(22)
Social and Theological Analysis	290	(28)
Description of the Western Church in the High Middle Ages	318	(19)
Principles for a Historical Ecclesiology	337	(8)
Conciliarism and the Late Medieval Church	345	(80)
Historical Development	346	(13)
Social and Theological Analysis	359	(47)
Description of the Church in the Late Medieval Period	406	(11)
Principles for a Historical Ecclesiology	417	(8)
Index	425