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More Than Communion

Imagining an Eschatological Ecclesiology

  • Hardback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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Zizioulas' and Milbank's theologies of the church are both marked by an overly realised sense of the impending end of the world (eschatology). As a result, their theology fails to acknowledge the potential for good the time-frame a theology of eschatology can have on influencing how people act. This focus on the impact of the ending of the world is further connected to both theologians' devaluation of material creation and history, privileging of institutions, the restrictive and closed concept of the church, and reduction of ecclesial practice essential to eucharist. Scott MacDougall offers a proposal for recovering the 'more' to communion and ecclesiology to aid in imagining a church not beyond the world (as in Zizioulas) or over against the world (as in Milbank), but in and for the world in love and service. This concept is worked out in conversation with systematic theologians such as J rgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Johannes Baptist Metz, and by engaging with a theology of Christian practices currently being developed by such as Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra.
The potential for the church to become a vehicle for love and service can be realised when it anticipate God's promised perfection in the communions between God, humanity, and the rest of creation.

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  • Author

    Scott MacDougall

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    May 2015

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567659880

  • ISBN-10

    0567659887

  • Eden Code

    4300712

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