The Trinity Guide to the Christian Church

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-1950-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

La Due applies the scheme he applied to Jesus, the Trinity, and eschatology to the Church in this new historical overview of ecclesiology.

- Another engaging and accessible title in the Trinity Guides series
- La Due's books are one of our well-known brand products
- An important overview of ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the Church, that moves from ideas about the church in the New Testament to contemporary theologians such as Jurgen Moltmann, Hans Kung, and Rosemary Ruether.

The forms and shapes of the Christian churches in the last millennia have indeed been varied. La Due applies the scheme he applied to Jesus, the Trinity, and eschatology to the Church in this new historical overview of ecclesiology.

He opens with a short description of the various models of the church found in the New Testament and follows that up with a review of what early Christian theologians such as Augustine had to say about the Church.

La Due proceeds to examine the medieval papcy and the impetus it had for the Protestant Reformation, and he analyzes the ideas about the church held by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the English Reformation. He then moves into the nineteenth century and twentieth centuries, offering overviews of theologians including Schleiermacher, Tillich, Hans Kung, Karl Rahner, Jurgen Moltmann, and Rosemary Ruether.

Zielgruppe

Academics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Due, William J. la

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Earliest Developments
Chapter 2 The Agents of Reformation
Chapter 3 Protestant Ecclesiology Comes of Age
Chapter 4 Recent Views of Traditional Catholic Ecclesiology
Chapter 5 The Next Generation of Protestant Ecclesiology
Chapter 6 Other Approaches to Church
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William J. La Due taught canon law at Catholic University, and is the author of The Trinity Guide to the Trinity and Jesus Among the Theologians. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.