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In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as "gathered community" that he shared with Radical Reformers.

Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process he engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a brilliant ecumenical study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God.

ISBN-13: 9780802844408

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Eerdmans - William B. Publishing Company

Publication Date: 10-01-1997

Pages: 326

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

Series: Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age

Miroslav Volf is director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. His other books include Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to the American Edition
Introduction

  1. A Cry of Protest and Its Fate
  2. Free Churches: The Churches of the Future?
  3. An Ecumenical Study

PART I

I. Ratzinger: Communion and the Whole

  1. Faith, Sacrament, and Communion
    2. 1.1. Faith and Communion
    1.2. Sacrament and Communion    <