Steve Summers

Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding of the church today. Since Jesus' statement in St John's gospel "I call you friends" the concept of friendship has had a huge influence on the Christian understanding of community. But is the historical understanding of friendship enough to serve the needs of the church in a post-modern age? Steve Summers explores the limits of the concept as well as it's possible use in contemporary ecclesiology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567089908
• Artikelnr.: 38221253

Autorenporträt

Revd. Steve Summers is an Anglican parish priest in the Diocese of Portsmouth. He has a particular interest in how the Church engages with postmodern culture.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Methodology
Scholarship
Structure
SECTION ONE
Chapter 1 - 'YOU ARE MY FRIENDS' A textual survey
Chapter 2 - FRIENDSHIP'S POSTMODERN CONTEXT
SECTION TWO
Chapter 3 - FRIENDSHIP IN THE CLASSICAL ERA AND BEYOND
Chapter 4 - A THEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF FRIENDSHIP
Chapter 5 - FRIENDS - THE SELF AND THE OTHER
SECTION THREE
Chapter 6 - FRIENDSHIP'S PARTICULARITY
Chapter 7 - THE CHURCH - A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY