Rethinking the Beloved Community

Lewis S. Mudge is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California and the Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology, Emeritus, at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.

For any ecclesiologist the book is worth reading... -- J. Otto (Newlands) Boekbesprekings Mudge's vision serves as a critique of contemporary secretarians who seem to have given up on their belief that all people are created in the image of God, and might therefore have something to teach us about their maker. -- Mark D. Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford The Expository Times Mudge's vision serves as a critique of contemporary secretarians who seem to have given up on their belief that all people are created in the image of God, and might therefore have something to teach us about their maker. -- Mark D. Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford The Expository Times For any ecclesiologist the book is worth reading... -- J. Otto (Newlands) Boekbesprekings

• Chapter 1 Foreword by Konrad Raiser Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Searching for Faith's Social Reality Chapter 4 Jesus and the Struggle for the Real Chapter 5 Ecclesia as Counter-Consciousness Chapter 6 The Servant Lord and his Servant People Chapter 7 Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Interpretation Chapter 8 Church and Human Salvation: The Contemporary Dialogue Chapter 9 Thinking in the Community of the Faith: Toward an Ecclesial Hermeneutic Chapter 10 Toward a Hermeneutic for Ecclesiogenesis Chapter 11 Faith, Ethics, and Civil Society Chapter 12 Traditioned Communities and the Good Society: The Search for a Public Philosophy Chapter 13 Remodeling the Household: Ecclesiology and Ethics After Harare Chapter 14 Moral Hospitality for Public Reasoners Chapter 15 Index