Who Is the Church?
Author | : Cheryl M. Peterson |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780800698812 |
ISBN-13 | : 0800698819 |
Rating | : 4/5 (819 Downloads) |
Download or read book Who Is the Church? written by Cheryl M. Peterson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose—what churches "do"—but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they are—to reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. Peterson suggests that we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the church's identity—specifically, the story of the church's origin in the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for the future of mainline Protestant theology.