TY - BOOK AU - Avis,Paul D.L. TI - Reshaping ecumenical theology: the Church made whole? SN - 9780567194435 AV - BR118 .A955 2010eb U1 - 262.001 A958R 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - T & T Clark KW - Theology KW - Methodology KW - Church KW - Unity KW - Ecumenical movement KW - Religion KW - RELIGION KW - Ecumenism KW - bisacsh KW - Christian Ministry KW - Discipleship KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The church: unity and multiplicity -- Rethinking ecumenical theology -- New paths in ecumenical theology -- The hermeneutics of unity -- Towards a deeper reception of 'reception' -- Confessionalism or a confessing church? -- Episcopacy: focus of unity or cause of division? -- Building and breaking communion -- Ethics and communion: the new frontier in ecumenism -- Forging communion in the face of difference N2 - Reshaping Ecumenical Theology is a major contribution to the study of the Church. It provides an clear and authoritative orientation for the student, while probing deep into a range of key issues in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue from a critical standpoint that will stimulate discussion among scholars and ecumenists. It reclaims some old orthodoxies, while challenging some new ones, and points to a deeper and more personal engagement with the major traditions of the Christian Church as the way to fuller unity and more effective mission. Contesting Ecumenical Theology argues that the valu UR - http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=601627 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10427503 UR - http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=286867 UR - http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=344180 ER -