Christ Existing as Community
Download or Read eBook Christ Existing as Community PDF written by Michael Mawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Michael Mawson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780192560995 |
ISBN-13 | : 0192560999 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Christ Existing as Community by : Michael Mawson
Book excerpt: In Christ Existing as Community, Michael Mawson recovers and clarifies the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's early and important work on ecclesiology, focusing especially on his doctoral dissertation Sanctorum Communio. Despite occasional pronouncements of the importance of this dissertation, it has still received only limited scholarly attention. Mawson demonstrates how Bonhoeffer draws upon and reworks social theory in order to develop an account of the church as a reality of God's revelation and a concrete human community. On this basis Mawson concludes that Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology has ongoing significance for contemporary debates in theology and Christian ethics.