New perspectives in Believers Church ecclesiology
By: Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, Karl Koop, editors
Contributors: Dueck, Abe J.; Harder, Helmut; Koop, Karl, 1959-
Publisher: CMU Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winnipeg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780920718841
Subjects: Church; Congresses; Anabaptists; Doctrines; Ecclésiologie; Congrès; Anabaptistes
Notes: Addresses and papers from the 16th Believers Church Conference, held Jun. 7-11, 2008 at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Man.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Biblical perspectives; title: The one and the many / Shilela Klassen-Wiebe; title: The relevance of Paul's eschatological ecclesiology for ecumenical relations / Gordon Zerbe; title: II. Dymanics of denominationalism; title: Life in a muddy world: historical and theological reflections on denominationalism / Bruce L. Guenther; title: The church as the body of Christ incarnate in the Manitoba Mennonite experience / John J. Friesen; title: Women among Canadian Mennonite Brethren and the struggle for denominational consensus / Doug Heidebrecht; title: III. Reviewing assumptions; title: Believers Church ecclesiology: a vital alternative within the ecumenical family / Fernando Enns; title: Reading tradition through Catholic lenses: moving beyond restorationism / Karl Koop; title: The ground of perfection: Michael Sattler on "the body of Christ" / Brian Hamilton; title: The pietist as strong poet: a Brethren corrective to the Anabaptist communal soul / Scott Holland; title: IV. Trinitarian foundations; title: Believers Church ecclesiology: a trinitarian foundation and its implications / Fernando Enns; title: Examining the Believers Church within a trinitarian-missional framework / Arnold Neufeldt-Fast; title: Ceremonies reconsidered; title: A sacramental Believers Church: Pilgram Marpeck and the (un)mediated presence of God / Andrea M. Dalton; title: (Re)learning to swim in baptismal waters: contemporary challenges in the Believers Church tradition / Irma Fast Duek; title: Recent trends; title: Discerning the spirit in the ferment of evangelical ecclesiologies / Jonathan R. Wilson; title: How Anabaptist theology and the emergent church address the problem of individualism in the Believers Church / Gareth Branddt; title: The air is not quite fresh: emerging church ecclesiology / Paul Doerksen; title: The southern shift in world Christianity: a Kairos episode for the Believers Church / Goerge F. Pickens.