Re-imagining life together in America
Subtitle: a new gospel of community
By: Catherine Nerney, Hal Taussig.
Contributors: Taussig, Hal.
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Communities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Christian life -- United States.; Communities -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263).
Table of contents: value: The emergence of Christian community in the Hellenistic Mediterranean; value: Five early Christian communities; value: Communion : meanings of community take on universal significance; value: A church called back to its roots; value: An Eastern Orthodox contribution to understanding koinonia : the work of John Zizioulas; value: Social philosophers as conversation partners about community; value: Communion and liberation : the contribution of liberation and feminist theologians to understanding communion; value: The American disaster; value: The crisis of community in the Christian churches of America; value: The emergence of Christian community in contemporary America; value: Encountering diverse "forms" of contemporary Christian communities; value: Building community : exploring a metaphor.