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More Than Communion - Imagining an Eschatological Ecclesiology (Hardcover)
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More Than Communion - Imagining an Eschatological Ecclesiology (Hardcover)
Series: Ecclesiological Investigations
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The dominant contemporary model for ecclesiology (theological views
of the church itself) is the ecclesiology of communion. MacDougall
argues that communion ecclesiologies are often marked by a
problematic theological imagination of the future (eschatology). He
argues further that, as a result, our ways of practising and being
the church are not as robust as they might otherwise be.
Re-imagining the church in the light of God's promised future,
then, becomes a critical conceptual and practical task. MacDougall
presents a detailed exploration of what communion ecclesiologies
are and some of the problems they raise. He offers two case studies
of such theologies by examining how distinguished theologians John
Zizioulas and John Milbank understand the church and the future,
how these combine in their work, and the conceptual and practical
implications of their perspectives. He then offers an alternative
theological view and demonstrates the effects that such a shift
would have. In doing so, MacDougall offers a proposal for
recovering the 'more' to communion and to ecclesiology to help us
imagine a church that is 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 Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart
Pannenberg, and Johannes Baptist Metz, and by engaging with a
theology of Christian practices currently being developed by
practical theologians such as Dorothy C. Bass, Craig Dykstra, and
those associated with their ongoing project. The potential for the
church to become an agent of discipleship, love, and service can
best be realised when the church anticipates God's promised
perfection in the full communion between God and humanity, among
human beings, within human persons, and between humanity and the
rest of creation.
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