FRIENDSHIP: EXPLORING ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CHURCH IN POSTMODERNITY
Summers Steve
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9780567490643
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Revd. Steve Summers is an Anglican parish priest in the Diocese of Portsmouth. He has a particular interest in how the Church engages with postmodern culture.Appeals to a wider audience than traditional studies of ecclesiology.There are a couple of books on the Christian concept of friendship but none applies this model explicitly to the understanding of the church.Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding the church today.Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding the church today.INTRODUCTION Methodology Scholarship Structure SECTION ONE Chapter 1 śYOU ARE MY FRIENDS A textual survey Chapter 2 FRIENDSHIPS POSTMODERN CONTEXT SECTION TWO Chapter 3 FRIENDSHIP IN THE CLASSICAL ERA AND BEYOND Chapter 4 A THEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF FRIENDSHIP Chapter 5 FRIENDS THE SELF AND THE OTHER SECTION THREE Chapter 6 FRIENDSHIPS PARTICULARITY Chapter 7 THE CHURCH A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHYśThe church always exists in a tensive relationship with its surrounding culture. But the culture of postmodernity with its fragmentation of knowledge and individualism seems to challenge the churchs very existence. Dr. Steve Summers responds by showing how the human phenomenon of friendship opens up a deeper understanding of the fundamental character of the church that meets the challenge. The church is not an assembly of likeminded people with the same beliefs but a community of friends that actualize something close to spiritual organicity in the face of rootlessness and dispersion. They participate by invitation in the Eucharistic meal of friends in the Lord: they create an open space for receiving others: they live on the basis of a common friendship with God. This is not an essay on church organization but a probing account of the ontological condition of friends of God in Christ. Multidisciplinary in it sources this theology probes beneath the surface of the church to reveal in a profound way its nature. It is a major contribution to ecclesiology. Roger Haight S. J. Union Theological Seminary New York USAśTimely and ambitiously wideranging this book provokes thought on the meaning of Gods love as friendshiplove and how it can in todays context inform the Churchs selfunderstanding as an open Eucharistic community of friends. Elizabeth Carmichael Faculty of Theology University of Oxford UKśSummers work is an interesting ecclesiological investigation and one which the church should be encouraged to hear.śThis book is at its best when describing where Summers seems most at home namely the postmodern condition itself which he clearly welcomes particularly for the church.Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 485 gr
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