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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812978603321

Titolo

Explorations in ecclesiology and ethnography / / edited by Christian B. Scharen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Grand Rapids, Michigan ; ; Cambridge, England : , : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4674-3696-8

1-4674-3697-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 180 p. )

Collana

Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography

Disciplina

262

Soggetti

Church

Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. On congregations and the church. On the dynamic relation between ecclesiology and congregational studies / James Nieman and Roger Haight -- Ecclesiology and empirical research on the church / Harald Hegstad -- Part 2. On congregations and worship. Affirming faith at a service of baptism in St. Aldates Church, Oxford / Paul S. Fiddes and Pete Ward -- Epiphanic sacramentality : an example of practical ecclesiology revisioning theological understanding / Clare Watkins and Helen Cameron -- Part 3. On congregations and society. Understanding religion takes practice : anti-urban bias, geographical habits, and theological influences / Mark T. Mulder and James K.A. Smith -- Ethnography as ecclesial attentiveness and critical reflexivity : fieldwork and the dispute over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church / Christopher Craig Brittain -- On discerning the living truth of the church : theological and sociological reflections on Receptive ecumenism and the local church / Paul D. Murray and Mathew Guest -- God at street level : digging up the theological identity of pastoral care among the homeless and drug addicts / Henk de Roest.