Tag: Ecclesiology

Howard A. Snyder, Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wine Skins Today. Wipf and Stock, 2005.  Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Community of the King and want deeper exposure to Snyder’s philosophy. This is an update of Snyder’s 1975 bestseller, The Problem With Wineskins. Using the Luke 5 image of the

Howard A. Snyder, The Community of the King: Revised Edition. InterVarsity Press, 2004.  Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: The Community of the King is an excellent example of a contextualized ecclesiology, exploring God’s intent for the church into a specific cultural setting, in our case Western society generally and

Joseph H. Hellerman, When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community. B and H Academic, 2009.  Referenced in: Ecclesiologies LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: When the Church Was a Family is an excellent example of contextualized ecclesiology, exploring God’s intent for the church into a specific cultural

Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger, Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction. Brazos Press, 2009. Referenced in: Ecclesiology LifeandLeadership.com Summary Theology of Mission and Ministry. Summary: Harper and Metzger’s Exploring Ecclesiology is an excellent example of contextualized ecclesiology, exploring God’s intent for the church into a specific cultural setting, in our case Western society

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