Liquid Ecclesiology

The Gospel and the Church
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34559-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

In Liquid Ecclesiology Pete Ward explores the theological contours of the turn to ethnography in the study of the Christian Church. His approach rests on a theology of culture that holds in tension and paradox the expression of the Church and divine presence. This theological framework is then developed through an extended qualitative empirical case study examining the communicative practices of the contemporary evangelical Church. The case study examines how the evangelical Gospel through expression has become marginalised in the everyday life of communities being replaced by a new more individual and personalised theology seen in worship songs. The final section of the book returns to the debates around ethnographic forms of theology and the question of normativity. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in empirical and theological work, as well as those researching the contemporary Church and evangelicalism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Pete

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I - Currents in a Liquid Ecclesiology

1. The Gospel and the Church
2. The Gospel as Paradox and Light
3. Making Church: Gospel, Construction, and Ecclesial Fluidity
4. The Material Nature of the Gospel

Part II - Discerning the Liquid Church: A Case Study

5. The Gospel and Change
6. Personal Faith
7. Narratives of Encounter
8. Evaluating the Case Study

Part III - Abiding in a Liquid Ecclesiology

9. The Call to Abide
10. Seeing and Learning: Theological Education in the Church

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pete Ward is a Professorial Fellow at Durham University and Professor of Practical Theology at MF The Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo. He is the author of a number of books on the study of the contemporary Church including Liquid Church (2002).