The Community of the Word : Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology / edited by Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2005 - 291 p. ; 23 cm.

Part I. The church in "evangelical" theologies : looking back -- ch. 1. The church in evangelical theologies, past and future / D.G. Hart -- ch. 2. The fundamental dispensation of evangelical ecclesiology / Dennis L. Okholm -- ch. 3. Practicing church : evangelical ecclesiologies at the end of modernity / Jonathan R. Wilson -- Part II. Locating the church dogmatically -- ch. 4. The church and the perfection of God / John Webster -- ch. 5. "The visible attests the invisible" / John Webster -- ch. 6. The church as missional community / Darrell L. Guder -- Part III. The church as moral community -- ch. 7. Inclusivism, idolatry, and the survival of the (fittest) faithful / William J. Abraham -- ch. 8. "Able to instruct one another" : the church as a community of moral discourse / Allen Verhey -- Part IV. The church as sacramental community? -- ch. 9. Beyond theocracy and individualism : the significance of John Howard Yoder's ecclesiology for evangelicalism / Craig A. Carter -- ch. 10. The church as "sacrament" / Gary D. Badcock -- ch. 11. Sacramental ecclesiology / Ellen T. Charry -- Part V. Locating the church culturally -- ch. 12. The church as social theory : a reformed engagement with radical orthodoxy / James K.A. Smith -- ch. 13. The desire of the church / Willie James Jennings -- ch. 14. Spaces for an evangelical ecclesiology / William A. Dyrness -- Conclusion : the body of Christ, the bread of heaven / Ellen T. Charry.

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