Reshaping ecumenical theology [[electronic resource] ] : the Church made whole? / / Paul Avis

• Autore: Avis Paul <1947->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T&T Clark, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 262.001/1
• Soggetto topico: Theology - Methodology; Church - Unity; Ecumenical movement
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The church: unity and multiplicity -- Rethinking ecumenical theology -- New paths in ecumenical theology -- The hermeneutics of unity -- Towards a deeper reception of 'reception' -- Confessionalism or a confessing church? -- Episcopacy: focus of unity or cause of division? -- Building and breaking communion -- Ethics and communion: the new frontier in ecumenism -- Forging communion in the face of difference.
• Sommario/riassunto: Reshaping Ecumenical Theology is a major contribution to the study of the Church. It provides an clear and authoritative orientation for the student, while probing deep into a range of key issues in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue from a critical standpoint that will stimulate discussion among scholars and ecumenists. It reclaims some old orthodoxies, while challenging some new ones, and points to a deeper and more personal engagement with the major traditions of the Christian Church as the way to fuller unity and more effective mission. Contesting Ecumenical Theology argues that the valu
• Titolo autorizzato: Reshaping ecumenical theology
• ISBN: 1-282-86867-5; 9786612868672; 0-567-57519-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785215903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II