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Who Is the Church?
Cheryl M. Peterson
其他書名
An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century
出版Fortress Press, 2013-05-01
主題Religion / Christian Theology / EcclesiologyReligion / Christian Theology / SystematicReligion / Christian Church / General
ISBN08006988199780800698812
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s6ClPqgzRWgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose—what churches "do"—but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are—to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves.
Peterson suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity—specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology.