Ecumenical Ecclesiology Unity, Diversity and Otherness in a Fragmented World

by Thiessen, Gesa Elsbeth

• ISBN13: 9780567009135
• ISBN10: 0567009130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Ecumenical Ecclesiology brings together European, North American and Asian theologians discussing the concept, life, unity and future of the church. Edited by Gesa E. Thiessen, these articles offer a wealth of broad Perspectives on ecclesiology by scholars from Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox backgrounds. Ecumenical Ecclesiology significantly contributes to current thinking on the ecumenical quest for unity, on communion ecclesiology, and it offers reflections on the church in global and local contexts. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen is a lecturer at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Perspectives on Contemporary Ecumenical Ecclesiology
Driving the Haywain: Were Stands the Church 'Catholic' Today?	p. 13
Seeking Unity: Reflecting on Methods in Contemporary Ecumenical Dialogue	p. 35
The Struggle for an Organic, Conciliar and Diverse Church: Models of Church Unity in Earlier Stages of the Ecumenical Dialogue	p. 49
Church and Covenant: Theological Resources for Divided Denominations	p. 62
Comprehensive Vision: The Ecumenical Potential of a Lost Ideal	p. 76
Integrity, Alternative Aggressions, and Impaired Communion	p. 88
Communion Ecclesiology and Otherness
The Church and the 'Other': Questions of Ecclesial and Divine Communion	p. 101
Being Church: A Critique of Zizioulas' Communion Ecclesiology	p. 115
Retrieving Eucharistic Ecclesiology	p. 128
Communion Ecclesiology and Ecumenical Experience: Resources for Inner-Denominational Otherness	p. 143
Evangelical Ecclesiology as an Answer to Ethnic Impaired Christian Community? An Inquiry into the Theology of Miroslav Volf	p. 161
Ecclesiology in Global Contexts
On Being a European Catholic: The Politics of Inclusion Encounters an Ecclesiology of Exclusion	p. 175
Instruments of Faith and Unity in Canon Law: The Church of Nigeria Constitutional Revision of 2005	p. 190
Sacral Authority and Pastoral Ministry: A Shamanistic Inculturation of the Protestant Church in Korea	p. 205
Confucianism, Internationalism, Patriotism and Protestantism: The Ecclesiological Matrix of Japanese Christian Activists in Japan and the US Diaspora	p. 223
Index	p. 239
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