The Church Unfinished
Subtitle: Ecclesiology Through The Centuries
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: September 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780809142866
Subjects: Ecclesiology & Church government; History of specific subjects; Religion - Classic Works; History; Religion; Religion - Catholicism; Christian Theology - Catholic; Christian Theology - Ecclesiology; Church; History of doctrines; Christianity - Theology - Catholic
First sentence: The Church comes from Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity was related to the very particular time and place of the Roman Empire and of the Jewish people in whose midst he lived, worked, and died.
Description: "The Church Unfinished traces how the Church came from the "community of unexpected persons" whom Jesus gathered around himself and how the Church was then shaped, over the course of centuries, by human decisions made in the Spirit. This study also develops a historical ecclesiology, linking an understanding of the complex development of the Church in the past with an eschatological openness to the future in which God may be calling the Church to new possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.