Christian Assembly : Marks Of The Church In A Pluralistic Age
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What is church? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory, with internal factions, external pressures, and ecumenical turmoil all calling for a more positive, sturdy, more resilient notion of Christian community.
Wengert approaches the questions as a Reformation historian. He shows how the New Testament notion of ”marks” of the church was taken up by Martin Luther and developed by Phillip Melanchthon not as a descriptive tag but as a criterion for authenticity in Christian community. Lathrop, a liturgical theologian, shows concretely how those marks can stamp the worship life of a congregation as well as the evaluative work of congregations with their pastors, bishops, superintendents, and conference ministers.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780800636609
ISBN10: 0800636600
Gordon Lathrop | Timothy Wengert
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: February 2004
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media
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