Exploring Ecclesiology – An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction

Brad Harper (PhD, St. Louis University) is professor of theology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. He is the college adviser for The Institute for Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins and the book review editor for Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture. He has also worked as a pastor and church planter. Paul Louis Metzger (PhD, King's College London) is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary and director of its Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins. He is the editor of the journal Cultural Encounters and the author of Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church.

• Introduction1. The Church as a Trinitarian Community: The Being-Driven Church2. The Trinitarian Church Confronts American Individualism3. The Church as an Eschatological Community4. Eschatology, the Church, and Ecology5. The Church as a Worshipping Community6. The Worshipping Church Engages Culture7. The Church as a Sacramental Community8. Sacraments and the Search for the Holy Grail9. The Church as a Serving Community10. Church Discipline--The Lost Element of Service11. The Church as an Ordered Community12. The Role of Women in the Ordered Community13. The Church as a Cultural Community: Christ, Culture, and the Sermon on the Mount Community14. Getting Past the Ghettoizing of the Gospel in Today's Culture15. The Church as a Missional Community: The Being-Driven Church16. From Building Programs to Building God's Missional KingdomA Postmodern PostscriptRecommended ReadingsAppendix: Types of Ecclesiology