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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806224403321

Autore

Komonchak Joseph A

Titolo

Who are the church? / / Joseph A. Komonchak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, WI, : Marquette University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4416-1054-5

0-87462-836-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (87 p.)

Collana

The Pere Marquette lecture in theology ; ; 2008

Disciplina

262/.7

Soggetti

Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

short title Who Are the Church?; title page Who Are the Church?; copyright page; Foreword; Who Are the Church? by Joseph A. KomoncHak; The Pè€re Marquette Lectures in Theology (complete list); bar code

Sommario/riassunto

In ""Who are the Church,"" Joseph Komonchak gives us a concise recapitulation of the insights he has gained over a long and esteemed career as a scholar, historian and ecclesiologist. The book may be read as an invitation to Christians of whatever variety to think responsibly about the concrete reality to which the term ""the Church"" refers. Far from denying the transcendental element, Komonchak leads the reader away from an artificial transcendentalism and in the direction of discovering the authentically transcendental element of the Church as it exists in the concrete reality of the commun