The Church: Sacraments, Worship, Ministry, MissionIn The Church, Donald G. Bloesch explores with clarity and balance the contours of ecclesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues ranging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship to the church's place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of heaven, and church reunion.Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breadth and biblical in depth, Bloesch's work presents a theology of the church that calls for reformation and renewal according to the Word and Spirit of God. |
Contents
Abbreviations | 12 |
Continuing Issues in Ecclesiology | 27 |
Quandary over Worship | 35 |
Christian Unity | 41 |
Martin Luther | 48 |
Thomas F Torrance | 56 |
The Churchs Mandate | 62 |
4 | 69 |
The Demise of Biblical Preaching | 178 |
A SocioTheological Typology | 189 |
The Diversity of Ministries | 204 |
The Gospel in a Syncretistic Age | 235 |
Toward the Reunion of the Churches | 252 |
A Confessing Church | 265 |
The Cambridge Declaration | 288 |
The Gospel of Jesus Christ | 295 |
Authority in the Church | 82 |
6 | 99 |
Worship in Spirit and Truth | 116 |
Rethinking Sacraments | 147 |
Notes | 306 |
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