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End Of The Church

Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West

  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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For Christians seeking understanding of church unity issues

Addresses the complex reasons behind church divisions

You will gain insights into the Holy Spirit's role in unity

This book offers a deep theological exploration of church division in the West.

In this first serious assessment of the meaning of church division, Ephraim Radner provides a theological rationale for today's divided church in the Christian West that goes far beyond the standard socio-historical explanations of denominationalism. Through an examination of controversial, post-Reformation discussions about the church, Radner offers a significant theory that describes the relation between Christian division and the work of the Holy Spirit within Western modernity. Radner's description of the church is based on the traditional notion that a divided church is, in a significant sense, a "dead" church, after the figure of the pneumatically abandoned "dead Christ," who himself suffers redemptively the disintegration and restoration of divided Israel in his physical and spiritual passion. The hermeneutical basis for the usefulness of this figure lies deep in the scriptural practice of the undivided church, and was common up through the Reformation. Radner's recovery of this figural perspective is applied to the cluster of pneumatological issues that define ecclesial life.
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  • Title

    End Of The Church

  • Author

    Ephraim Radner

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    June 1998

  • Weight

    532g

  • Page Count

    368

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802844613

  • ISBN-10

    0802844618

  • Eden Code

    1010386

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