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The Dominant Contemporary Model For Ecclesiology (theological Views Of The Church Itself) Is The Ecclesiology Of Communion. Macdougall Argues That Communion Ecclesiologies Are Often Marked By A Problematic Theological Imagination Of The Future (eschatology). He Argues Further That, As A Result, Our Ways Of Practising And Being The Church Are Not As Robust As They Might Otherwise Be. Re-imagining The Church In The Light Of God's Promised Future, Then, Becomes A Critical Conceptual And Practical Task. Macdougall Presents A Detailed Exploration Of What Communion Ecclesiologies Are And Some Of The Problems They Raise. He Offers Two Case Studies Of Such Theologies By Examining How Distinguished Theologians John Zizioulas And John Milbank Understand The Church And The Future, How These Combine In Their Work, And The Conceptual And Practical Implications Of Their Perspectives. He Then Offers An Alternative Theological View And Demonstrates The Effects That Such A Shift Would Have. In Doing So, Macdougall Offers A Proposal For Recovering The 'more' To Communion And To Ecclesiology To Help Us Imagine A Church That Is Not Beyond The World (as In Zizioulas) Or Over Against The World (as In Mi

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Author

Scott MacDougall

Publisher

Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of the Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567659897

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian