The household of God and local households
Subtitle: revisiting the domestic church
By: edited by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi, Gerard Mannion, Peter De Mey
Contributors: Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ). Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid; International Academy for Marital Spirituality
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 254; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 254.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9789042927360
Subjects: Kyrkan; Families; Church; Glaubensleben; Christianity; Households; Familie; Congresses; Sociala aspekter; House churches; Hauskirche
Notes: Papers presented at an international conference held March 10-13, 2010, at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven, under the auspices of the International Academy for Marital Spirituality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The domestic church : revisiting a theological concept at the intersection of family studies and ecclesiology  -- Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi; title: Household of God and human relations : what type of relations do we need in the church?  -- Bernd Jochen Hilberath; title: Redemptive disruptions and the potential power of ecclesial domestic difference  -- Mary McClintock Fulkerson; title: The church as family of God : an ecclesiological perspective  -- Sandra Mazzolini; title: The church, family of God : relevance and pastoral challenges of a metaphor from an African perspective  -- Francis Appiah-Kubi; title: The domestic church in Western Europe : shapes and changes  -- Henk Witte; title: Fine-tuning the notion of "domestic church"  -- Michael A. Fahey; title: The Christian household as school of discipleship : reflections on the ecclesial contributions of the Christian household to the larger church  -- Richard R. Gaillardetz; title: The dangerous idea of the domestic church  -- Damien Casey; title: Eastern Christian perspectives on the church of the home  -- Philip M. Mamalakis; title: It's about time : rethinking spirituality and the domestic church  -- Claire E. Wolfteich; title: What kind of family is needed for "domestic church"? : a mystagogy of the family  -- Jana M. Bennett; title: Overcoming the discrepancy between ecclesial and domestic community : suggestions for a church sensitive to families' life and faith  -- Stephanie Klein; title: Familial rites and ecclesial rites : anthropological and theological perspectives on their relationship  -- Andrea Grillo; title: Family and religion in Judaism  -- Warren Zev Harvey; title: The domestic church and the early church : the household as context for Christianization in late antiquity  -- David G. Hunter; title: "A Jan Steen household" : the domestic church in the Shepherd of Hermas  -- Mark R.C. Grundeken; title: Work, love, and the domestic church : the "fundamental bond between work and the family" : a theological task or the responsibility of women?  -- Elisabeth Fónyad-Kropf; title: Ecclesia domestica, a school of peace : relevance of the teachings of John Paul II in times of communal violence in pluri-religious India  -- Sahayadas Fernando; title: The phallocentric hierarchical model of the family in Igbo context : towards a more egalitarian model in the light of the theology of domestic church  -- Michael Muonwe; title: How the universal becomes domestic : an anthropological case study of the Shuiwei village in Taiwan  -- Marco Lazzarotti; title: The ecumenical household as domestic church : ecclesial threat or pastoral challenge and even resource?  -- Bernard P. Prusak; title: Interchurch families as domestic church : the improbable grace  -- George A. Kilcourse, Jr.; title: The interchurch couple : witness to communion within division  -- Mary Marrocco; title: Interchurch families as domestic church : familial experiences and ecclesial opportunities  -- Ray Temmerman; title: "Many mansions" : ecclesial being in richly diverse contexts -- Gerard Mannion.