TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giles, Kevin 
TI  - What on Earth is the Church? : : An Exploration in New Testament Theology 
SN  - 97808308186860830818685
AV  - BS2545.C5  .G55 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill. : 
PB  - InterVarsity Press, 
KW  - Bible.—New Testament—Theology.Church—Biblical teaching.Bible.—N.T.—Theology
N1  - 1. Opening the Door: What on Earth Is the Church? The word ekklesia -- a brief comment -- 2. Jesus and the Founding of the Church -- 3. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- 4. The Church in the Book of Acts -- 5. The Church in Paul's Earliest Epistles -- 6. The Church in the Middle and Later Paulines -- 7. The Church in the Non-Pauline Epistles and the Book of Revelation -- 8. Drawing the Threads Together and the Invisible-Visible Church -- 9. The Denomination as Church -- 10. Deficiencies in Past Ecclesiology and the Promise of Trinitarian Ecclesiology -- Excursus 1 The Meaning of the Word Ekklesia: Old Testament and Intertestamental Background -- Excursus 2 Translating the Greek Word Ekklesia
ER  -