| After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity Contributor(s): Volf, Miroslav (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802844405 ISBN-13: 9780802844408 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $31.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: This inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as "gathered community" that he shared with Radical Reformers. Miroslav Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process, Volf engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a brilliant ecumenical study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ecumenism & Interfaith - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology |
| Dewey: 262 |
| LCCN: 97039593 |
| Series: Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.3" W x 9.26" (1.07 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Mainline - Theometrics - Evangelical |
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| Publisher Description: In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as "gathered community" that he shared with Radical Reformers. Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process, Volf engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God. |
Contributor Bio(s): Volf, Miroslav: - Miroslav Volf is Director of the Yale Center for Faith andCulture and Henry B. Wright Professor of SystematicTheology at Yale Divinity School. His other books includeExclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration ofIdentity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. |