The End of the Church

Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West

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Ephraim Radner

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In this first serious assessment of the meaning of church division, Ephraim Radner provides a theological rationale for today's divided church in the Christian West that goes far beyond the standard socio-historical explanations of denominationalism. Through an examination of controversial, post-Reformation discussions about the church, Radner offers a significant theory that describes the relation between Christian division and the work of the Holy Spirit within Western modernity. Radner's description of the church is based on the traditional notion that a divided church is, in a significant sense, a "dead" church, after the figure of the pneumatically abandoned "dead Christ," who himself suffers redemptively the disintegration and restoration of divided Israel in his physical and spiritual passion. The hermeneutical basis for the usefulness of this figure lies deep in the scriptural practice of the undivided church, and was common up through the Reformation. Radner's recovery of this figural perspective is applied to the cluster of pneumatological issues that define ecclesial life.

Author Biography:

Ephraim Radner is professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, and an ordained Anglican priest with extensive pastoral experience in various contexts. Active in ecumenical affairs, he has written several books on ecclesiology and biblical hermeneutics, including The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West, the Brazos Theological Commentary volume on Leviticus, and A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church.

Release date NZ

June 12th, 1998

Author

Ephraim Radner

Audiences

Further/Higher Education
Professional & Vocational
Technical / Manuals
Undergraduate

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Pages

368

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780802844613

Product ID

2006124

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