People Of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology

by Vondey, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780809145591
• ISBN10: 0809145596
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

"Wolfgang Vondey contends that the story of the church is a story of "the people of bread." The image of bread is one of the richest and, at the same time, one of the most neglected biblical images that speak to an ecumenical understanding of the church. Drawing from scripture, from writers of the early church, and from cutting-edge debates in contemporary scholarship, Vondey unfolds the social, moral, missiological, ecumenical, and eschatological dimensions of the church, based on the story of bread that far exceeds a eucharistic interpretation. People of Bread speaks to a growing interest in an understanding of the church by addressing the widespread revival of the theological imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Wolfgang Vondey is associate professor of systematic theology at Regent University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Story of Bread in the Church	p. 1
Bread and the People of God	p. 4
Rediscovering Ecclesiology	p. 7
A New Image for the Church: Reviving the Theological Imagination	p. 13
The Function of Theological Images	p. 13
Principles for the Use of Biblical Images	p. 27
Companionship: The Social Nature of the People of God	p. 36
Fellowship of Bread	p. 37
Fellowship with God	p. 44
Companionship	p. 60
Fullness of Bread: The Moral Character of the People of God	p. 70
The Challenge of Bread	p. 71
Sharing Bread with Strangers	p. 82
Hospitality	p. 97
Bread of Life: The Mission of the Church	p. 105
Not by Bread Alone	p. 106
Daily Bread	p. 112
Bread of Sonship	p. 117
Bread and Mission	p. 126
Broken Bread: The Sacramental Nature of the Church	p. 141
Broken Bread at the Last Supper	p. 143
Breaking Bread at the First Supper	p. 160
Breaking Bread in the Church	p. 173
One Bread: The Visible Unity of the Churches	p. 195
Ecumentical Unity: Companionship from House to House	p. 196
Eucharistic Hospitality: Discerning the Lord's Body	p. 212
One Bread: Toward Universal Companionship	p. 226
Bread of the Kingdom: The Eschatological Vision of the Church	p. 243
Companionship with Creation	p. 246
Companionship in Eternity	p. 261
Companionship in the Kingdom of God	p. 277
Conclusion: The Church as the People of Bread	p. 290
Houses of Bread	p. 291
Bread in the Churches	p. 295
Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology of Bread	p. 300
Notes	p. 305
Selected Bibliography	p. 367
Indexes
Scripture References	p. 403
Names	p. 412
Subjects	p. 414
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