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The Shape of Participation - A Theology of Church Practices (Paperback)
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The Shape of Participation - A Theology of Church Practices (Paperback)
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Description: The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive
theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful
pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of
church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers'
understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a
wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and
contemporary--including Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Herbert McCabe--Owens argues that the
embodied practices of the church are the church's participation in
the life of God, making the church Jesus' own continued, peaceable
embodiment in and for the world. This book is for theologians,
pastors, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how the
visible presence of God's church is extraordinarily good news in a
violent world. Endorsements: ""I'm grateful for this account of the
church's relationship to the life of God for refusing the
hopelessness of so much contemporary ecclesiology. All of us who
persist in preaching or hearing the Word and receiving God's good
gifts at the table will be strengthened and encouraged by Owens's
theocentric understanding of what the church is up to in the
world."" --Beth Felker Jones Wheaton College ""A wonderful
book--Owens takes the significant interest in 'practices' that has
emerged over the last decade, engages it theologically in rich ways
with attention to specific ecclesial examples, and deepens it
through insightful analyses of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Herbert McCabe,
and Maximus the Confessor. Pastors and scholars alike will benefit
from careful study of Owens's significant argument."" --L. Gregory
Jones Duke University ""By reframing the church's practices as a
participation in Christ and, indeed, as Christ's own practicing in
and for the world, Owens has brought to the study of Christian
practice new theological depth, shape, and creativity. Moreover, by
doing this in dialogue with ancient as well as contemporary
theological and philosophical sources and in a way that takes
seriously the concrete, embodied church rather than remaining on
the level of idealized and abstract ecclesiology, he has provided
us a helpful new model for thinking about what it means to be the
church."" --Bryan Stone Boston University School of Theology About
the Contributor(s): L. Roger Owens is co-pastor with his wife
Ginger Thomas of Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, Durham,
North Carolina. His next book is So I Send You: An Introduction to
the Missional Church (forthcoming in the Cascade Companion series
of Cascade Books).
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