Gerard Mannion is Director of the Centre for Catholic Thought and Culture and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA.

The writers are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist Scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. Several have broad international experience. The essays are thought-provoking and open up many areas for students and scholars of ecclesiology to learn how, in the words of Levinas "the others must be let be and not cast in our image".

• Ecclesiological Investigations: A New International Research Network - Gerard MannionAcknowledgementsContributorsForeword: Church: The Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity - Keith WardIntroduction: Church and the Grace of Otherness: Exploring Questions of Truth, Unity and Diversity - Gerard MannionPart I. Ecumenical and Pluralist Contexts and QuestionsEcumenical Questions on Women and Church - Phyllis ZaganoThe Whole Household of God (oikos): Some Ecclesiological Perspectives - Ernst ConradieCulture, Worship and Power: A Cast Study of South India - Paul M. CollinsThe Quest for Pakistani Christian Identity: A narrative of Religious Other as Liberative comparative Ecclesiology - John O'BrienChristianity, Feminism and the Religious Other: Beyond Eurocentrism - Jenny DaggersRoman Catholicism and its Religious 'Others': Contemporary Challenges - Gerard MannionPart II. Church, Inclusivity and DiversityA Community of the question: Inclusive Ecclesiology - Steven Shakespeare'Being Nice in Church': rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion - Mary McClintock FulkersonThe Eucharist: A Meal with Friends - Steve Summers'By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distrest': Anglicanism after the Windsor Report - Mark ChapmanChurch: Law, Community and Witness - George PattisonPart III. Constructive Explorations for the FutureShould the Church Change? - Bernard HooseThe Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Musings - David McLoughlinDialogue as Tradition: The Collective Journey towards Truth - Jayne HooseA Question of Balance: Unity and Diversity in the Life and Mission of the Church - Ola TjohornHoping to Learn: An Approach to Ecclesiology - Kenneth WilsonIndex

Gerard Mannion is Director of the Centre for Catholic Thought and Culture and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA.

The writers are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist Scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. Several have broad international experience. The essays are thought-provoking and open up many areas for students and scholars of ecclesiology to learn how, in the words of Levinas "the others must be let be and not cast in our image".

• Ecclesiological Investigations: A New International Research Network - Gerard MannionAcknowledgementsContributorsForeword: Church: The Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity - Keith WardIntroduction: Church and the Grace of Otherness: Exploring Questions of Truth, Unity and Diversity - Gerard MannionPart I. Ecumenical and Pluralist Contexts and QuestionsEcumenical Questions on Women and Church - Phyllis ZaganoThe Whole Household of God (oikos): Some Ecclesiological Perspectives - Ernst ConradieCulture, Worship and Power: A Cast Study of South India - Paul M. CollinsThe Quest for Pakistani Christian Identity: A narrative of Religious Other as Liberative comparative Ecclesiology - John O'BrienChristianity, Feminism and the Religious Other: Beyond Eurocentrism - Jenny DaggersRoman Catholicism and its Religious 'Others': Contemporary Challenges - Gerard MannionPart II. Church, Inclusivity and DiversityA Community of the question: Inclusive Ecclesiology - Steven Shakespeare'Being Nice in Church': rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion - Mary McClintock FulkersonThe Eucharist: A Meal with Friends - Steve Summers'By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distrest': Anglicanism after the Windsor Report - Mark ChapmanChurch: Law, Community and Witness - George PattisonPart III. Constructive Explorations for the FutureShould the Church Change? - Bernard HooseThe Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Musings - David McLoughlinDialogue as Tradition: The Collective Journey towards Truth - Jayne HooseA Question of Balance: Unity and Diversity in the Life and Mission of the Church - Ola TjohornHoping to Learn: An Approach to Ecclesiology - Kenneth WilsonIndex

Gerard Mannion is Director of the Centre for Catholic Thought and Culture and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA.

The writers are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist Scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. Several have broad international experience. The essays are thought-provoking and open up many areas for students and scholars of ecclesiology to learn how, in the words of Levinas "the others must be let be and not cast in our image".

• Ecclesiological Investigations: A New International Research Network - Gerard MannionAcknowledgementsContributorsForeword: Church: The Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity - Keith WardIntroduction: Church and the Grace of Otherness: Exploring Questions of Truth, Unity and Diversity - Gerard MannionPart I. Ecumenical and Pluralist Contexts and QuestionsEcumenical Questions on Women and Church - Phyllis ZaganoThe Whole Household of God (oikos): Some Ecclesiological Perspectives - Ernst ConradieCulture, Worship and Power: A Cast Study of South India - Paul M. CollinsThe Quest for Pakistani Christian Identity: A narrative of Religious Other as Liberative comparative Ecclesiology - John O'BrienChristianity, Feminism and the Religious Other: Beyond Eurocentrism - Jenny DaggersRoman Catholicism and its Religious 'Others': Contemporary Challenges - Gerard MannionPart II. Church, Inclusivity and DiversityA Community of the question: Inclusive Ecclesiology - Steven Shakespeare'Being Nice in Church': rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion - Mary McClintock FulkersonThe Eucharist: A Meal with Friends - Steve Summers'By Schisms Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distrest': Anglicanism after the Windsor Report - Mark ChapmanChurch: Law, Community and Witness - George PattisonPart III. Constructive Explorations for the FutureShould the Church Change? - Bernard HooseThe Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Musings - David McLoughlinDialogue as Tradition: The Collective Journey towards Truth - Jayne HooseA Question of Balance: Unity and Diversity in the Life and Mission of the Church - Ola TjohornHoping to Learn: An Approach to Ecclesiology - Kenneth WilsonIndex