Flawed Church, Faithful God
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Flawed Church, Faithful God

A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Flawed Church, Faithful God

A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World

About this book

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church’s true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. 

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts—people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit—but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, and social contexts. Both sociologically honest and theologically discerning,  Flawed Church, Faithful God  offers a constructive Reformed yet ecumenical ecclesiology for the real world.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Craig Dykstra
  6. Preface
  7. 1. What (in the World) Is the Church?
  8. 2. We Believe?
  9. 3. Church of the Word and Sacrament
  10. 4. Communion of the Holy Spirit
  11. 5. Body Language
  12. 6. Call and Response
  13. 7. People of God
  14. 8. In Our Time
  15. 9. Professing the Faith
  16. 10. One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
  17. 11. Hope for the Church
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index of Authors
  20. Index of Subjects
  21. Index of Scripture References