Tag: Church Leadership and Renewal

Peter C. Phan, The Gift of the Church: A Textbook on Ecclesiology in Honor of Patrick Granfield, O.S.B. Michael Glazier Books, 2000. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: This work is an example of biblical ecclesiology. The author is a Catholic, and some of the chapters discuss items that are

Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Introduction to Ecclesiology: Ecumenical, Historical, and Global Perspectives. InterVarsity Press, 2002. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: Karkkainen’s Introduction to Ecclesiology is an excellent example of comparative ecclesiology, an in-depth survey of how the major Christian traditions, leading contemporary theologians, and social and ethnic groups conceive of the

John Stackhouse, Editor, Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality or Illusion? Baker Academic, 2003. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Ecclesiology is very important to congregational leadership and renewal. Ecclesiologies come in several varieties. LifeandLeadership.com focuses on three – biblical, comparative, and contextualized. For definitions see the essay on Church Renewal/Ecclesiology. As a biblical ecclesiology, this is an excellent

Markus Bockmuehl and Michael B. Thompson, Editors, A Vision for the Church, Studies in Early Christian Ecclesiology (Evangelical). T and T Clark, 2000. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Ecclesiology is very important to congregational leadership and renewal. Ecclesiologies come in several varieties. LifeandLeadership.com focuses on three – biblical, comparative, and contextualized. For definitions see the

Robert J. Banks, Paul’s Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, Revised Edition. Baker Academic, 1994. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a standard reference on the theology of church as a community, especially as it expressed itself in the house churches in the first century, as described in the

Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier, Editors, The Community Of The Word: Toward An Evangelical Ecclesiology. IVP Academic, 2005. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: While not as systematic as Ferguson’s The Church of Christ, this is an excellent collection of essays on the main issues pertaining to biblical and

Hans Kung, The Church. Continuum Publishers, 2001. Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a recognized classic, first published in 1967, and still available. Kung is a Catholic scholar who was very instrumental in framing the monumental reformulations of the church among Catholics in the 1960s. This book is an attempt not to represent Catholic