Companion to the Christian Church

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 21
INTRODUCTION: ECCLESIOLOGY – THE NATURE, STORY AND STUDY OF THE CHURCH......Page 22
PART I: HISTORICAL ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 28
1 IN SEARCH OF THE EARLY ‘CHURCH’: THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES......Page 30
2 THE CHURCH IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES: ECCLESIOLOGICAL CONSOLIDATION......Page 49
3 THE CHURCH IN MEDIEVAL THEOLOGY......Page 69
4 ECCLESIOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY......Page 84
5 THE CHURCH IN THE TRIDENTINE AND EARLY MODERN ERAS......Page 106
6 THE CHURCH IN MODERN THEOLOGY......Page 127
7 POSTMODERN ECCLESIOLOGIES......Page 148
PART II: ECCLESIOLOGICAL ‘TRADITIONS’......Page 174
8 ECCLESIOLOGY IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITION......Page 176
9 LUTHERAN ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 191
10 REFORMED ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 208
11 ANGLICAN ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 223
12 NON-CONFORMIST ECCLESIOLOGIES......Page 238
13 ROMAN CATHOLIC ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 255
14 ECCLESIOLOGIES AT THE MARGIN......Page 272
PART III: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 294
15 THE CHURCH IN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 296
16 EARTH, WATER, FIRE AND WIND: ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN ECCLESIOLOGIES......Page 312
17 THE CHURCH IN A LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 327
18 THE CHURCH IN A NORTH-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 347
19 THE CHURCH IN AN OCEANIC PERSPECTIVE......Page 363
20 THE CHURCH FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 385
PART IV: METHODS AND DEBATES......Page 406
21 COMPARATIVE ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 408
22 ECCLESIOLOGY AND ECUMENISM......Page 423
23 LIBERATION ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 442
24 BLACK ECCLESIOLOGIES......Page 464
25 FEMINIST ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 482
26 ECCLESIOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM......Page 497
PART V: CONCEPTS AND THEMES......Page 516
27 AUTHORITY......Page 518
28 THE LAITY......Page 532
29 MAGISTERIUM......Page 545
30 GOVERNANCE......Page 557
31 MINISTRY......Page 571
32 THE SENSUS FIDELIUM......Page 581
33 HERMENEUTICS AND ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 597
34 DOCTRINE AND ECCLESIOLOGY......Page 615
35 ECCLESIOLOGY AND ETHICS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH......Page 628
36 ECCLESIOLOGY AND WORLD MISSION/MISSIO DEI......Page 644
PART VI: THE CHURCH IN A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY CONTEXT......Page 658
37 ECCLESIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 660
38 ECCLESIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY......Page 676
INDEX......Page 695