| The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology Special Edition Contributor(s): Husbands, Mark (Editor), Treier, Daniel J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0830827978 ISBN-13: 9780830827978 Publisher: IVP Academic OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: Contains essays contributed by notable teachers and scholars Highlights a key theme of ongoing importance and current discussion of ecclesiology Approaches the topic from historical, biblical and theological perspectives Addresses key issues such as the nature of the church, the place of sacraments, the moral challenge to the church, the mission the service of the church in society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Religion | Christian Ministry - Evangelism - Religion | Christian Theology - History |
| Dewey: 262 |
| LCCN: 2004025504 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 291 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Do North American evangelicals have a clear and strong doctrine of the church? Can we generate one? In this volume, editors Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church's moral character and missional witness. Contributors include William J. Abraham, Gary D. Badcock, Craig A. Carter, Ellen T. Charry, William A. Dyrness, Darrell L. Guder, D. G. Hart, Willie James Jennings, Dennis L. Okholm, James K. A. Smith, Allen Verhey, John Webster and Jonathan R. Wilson. |
Contributor Bio(s): Husbands, Mark: - Mark Husbands (Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College) is Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA, and at Tyndale College and Seminary and Sheridan College in Toronto. While a Masters student at Wycliffe College at the Toronto School of Theology, he was senior editor ofProlegomena, an academic journal in theology. Professor Husband's academic work demonstrates a serious engagement with the work of Barth, Calvin, Luther and Jungel and extends to a consideration of reconciliation, theological anthropology and political theology. He is the author of the monographBarth's Ethics of Prayer and Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. He and Daniel J. Treier are editors of Justification: What's at Stake in the Recent Debates recently published by IVP. He is also editor of Theology and the End of Modernity: Essays in Conversation with Reginald Stackhouse and with Philip G. Ziegler co-edited Essays Catholic and Critical.. Husbands is also the editor of The Community of the Word. |