Representing some of Roger Haight's most extensive work to date,
this volume explores essential issues in comparative ecclesiology;
along with critical assesments of Haight's "Christian Community in
History".This volume will explore issues such as the nature, method
and development of comparative ecclesiology; critical assessments
as well as appreciations of Roger Haight's Christian Community in
History. The Jesuit, Roger Haight, has written extensively in the
fields of systematic theology, liberation theology, Christology
and, of course, ecclesiology itself. He champions the need for the
church to embrace a dialogical mission. This represents his most
extensive work to date in ecclesiology and is a monumental volume
study in comparative ecclesiology, volume 3 coming in 2008,
building upon the insights developed in recent years in the more
general sub-discipline of comparative theology.In all, Haight's
pioneering work in this emerging field of comparative ecclesiology
encourages us to immerse our contemporary explorations in, first,
historical consciousness, thereby inculcating the disposition of
humility - both in methodological terms and, when one realises how
far short we fall of some of our ecclesial forebears, in terms of
ecclesial life and practice as well. Second, as indicated, he
commends the positive appreciation of pluralism. Third, a
whole-part conception of church, neither placing universal over and
above local nor vice-versa. Four, we should be attentive to
embracing the gifts and human challenges of religious pluralism.
And, of course, five, Haight reassures those fearful that such
undertaking might entail any loss for the churches: he reminds us
how such ecclesiological encounters are and should be undertaken
from within a particular confessional or ecclesial
identity.Assembled are a range of noted ecclesiological scholars
who will discuss not simply Professor Haight's work, but also to
engage with the issues he raises in a wider context, such as the
respective methodological debates surrounding ecclesiology 'from
above' and 'from below', to the nature and promise of comparative
ecclesiology in itself, to the prospects for a 'pluralistic
ecclesiology' in the world today, and the challenges such an
undertaking presents to the Christian churches. Roger Haight will
be invited to offer his own reflections upon the various chapters."
Ecclesiological Investigations" brings together quality research
and inspiring debates in ecclesiology worldwide from a network of
international scholars, research centres and projects in the field.
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