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Church and Religious 'Other' (Ecclesiological Investigations) PDF

313 Pages·2008·2.165 MB·English
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This volume brings together the prestigious speakers at the inaugural Church in Our Times Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope, throughout the first 4 months of 2006, and invited contributors from and addressing wider international contexts - Africa, Sri Lanka, India and the United States. The volume explores themes such as questions of ecclesial and religious identity in these post-modern times, the advent of neo-exclusivism, divisions within the contemporary Roman Catholic and Anglicans churches, inter-faith relations and dialogue, questions of sexuality and Christian ministry, contemporary understandings of ecclesial authority, teaching and tradition, the inter-relation between the church and the kingdom of God today, an Asian appraisal of Pope Benedict's first sermon, inculturation and the rhetoric and reality of the notion of Church as Christianity's most distinctive and defining feature and constructive proposals for ecumenical ways forward in the future. Read more... Content: Ecumenical and pluralist contexts and questions -- Church, inclusivity and diversity -- Constructive explorations for the future. Abstract: Bringing together speakers from the inaugural "Church in Our Times Lecture Series" at Liverpool Hope University, this volume explores key affairs in ecclesiology. It examines themes such as questions of ecclesial and religious identity in these post-modern times, the advent of neo-exclusivism, and questions of sexuality and Christian ministry. Read more...
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