Peterson, Cheryl M., <br/><br/>
Who Is the Church?  An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century /  [Recurso electrónico] : 
Cheryl M. Peterson. 
 - Baltimore, Maryland :  Project Muse,  2013 Minneapolis [Minnesota] :  Fortress Press,  [2013] 
 - 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 153 pages)) 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: asking the right question -- 1. Ecclesiology and context in Protestant America -- 2. The Church as word-event -- 3. The Church as communion -- 4. Ecclesiology post-Christendom: the missional Church -- 5. Starting with the Spirit: a narrative method for ecclesiology post-Christendom -- 6. An ecclesiology that "starts with the Spirit": the ecumenical creeds -- Epilogue: a vision for revival. 
<br/><br/>Libro Electrónico 
<br/><br/> Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose--what churches "do"--but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are--to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. Peterson suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity--specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781451426380 1451426380 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mission of the church.<br/>Church.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV600.3  / .P488 2013