The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology

Mark Husbands, Daniel J. Treier

InterVarsity Press, Sep 20, 2009 - Religion

Do North American evangelicals have a clear and strong doctrine of the church? Can we generate one? In this volume, editors Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church's moral character and missional witness. Contributors include William J. Abraham, Gary D. Badcock, Craig A. Carter, Ellen T. Charry, William A. Dyrness, Darrell L. Guder, D. G. Hart, Willie James Jennings, Dennis L. Okholm, James K. A. Smith, Allen Verhey, John Webster and Jonathan R. Wilson.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 7
• PART FOUR: 12
• LOOKING BACK: 21
• THE FUNDAMENTAL DISPENSATION: 41
• Evangelical Ecclesiologies at: 63
• LOCATING THE CHURCH DOGMATICALLY: 73
• THE VISIBLE ATTESTS THE INVISIBLE: 96
• THE CHURCH AS MISSIONAL COMMUNITY: 114
• PART THREE: 129
• The Church as: 146
• THE CHURCH AS SACRAMENTAL COMMUNITY?: 171
• THE CHURCH AS SACRAMENT: 188
• SACRAMENTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: 201
• PART FIVE: 217
• THE DESIRE OF THE CHURCH: 235
• SPACES FOR AN EVANGELICAL ECCLESIOLOGY: 251
• The Body of Christ the Bread of Heaven: 273
• CONTRIBUTORS: 279
• SUBJECT INDEX: 285

About the author

Mark Husbands (Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College) is Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA, and at Tyndale College and Seminary and Sheridan College in Toronto. While a Masters student at Wycliffe College at the Toronto School of Theology, he was senior editor of Prolegomena, an academic journal in theology.

Professor Husband's academic work demonstrates a serious engagement with the work of Barth, Calvin, Luther and Jungel and extends to a consideration of reconciliation, theological anthropology and political theology. He is the author of the monograph Barth's Ethics of Prayer and Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. He and Daniel J. Treier are editors of Justification: What's at Stake in the Recent Debates recently published by IVP. He is also editor of Theology and the End of Modernity: Essays in Conversation with Reginald Stackhouse and with Philip G. Ziegler co-edited Essays Catholic and Critical.. Husbands is also the editor of The Community of the Word.

Daniel J. Treier (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the coeditor of nine books and author of three, including Virtue and the Voice of God and Introducing Theological Interpretation of Scripture.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology
• Editors: Mark Husbands, Daniel J. Treier
• Publisher: InterVarsity Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0830877142, 9780830877140
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology; Religion / Christian Theology / History