The shape of participation
Subtitle: a theology of church practices
By: L. Roger Owens
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781606085196
Subjects: Practical Theology; Christian communities; Criticism and interpretation; History of doctrines; Church
Description: The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and contemporary--including Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Herbert McCabe--Owens argues that the embodied practices of the church are the church's participation in the life of God, making the church Jesus' own continued, peaceable embodiment in and for the world. This book is for theologians, pastors, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how the visible presence of God's church is extraordinarily good news in a violent world. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Practicing communities; title: Rediscovering the embodied church; title: Theological uses of MacIntyre's "practices"; title: Preaching as a practice of participation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of preaching; title: Eucharist as a practice of participation: Herbert McCabe's theology of the eucharist; title: Varieties of participation; title: Participation in the triune God.