Mother Church
Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
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Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
Carl Braaten here issues an energetic call for a truly ecumenical
church, including a Lutheran rationale for
recovery of the historical episcopacy and papal primacy as servants
of the gospel.
Quoting Augustine's dictum that "You cannot have God for your father unless you have the church for your mother," Braaten writes of the church's place in the divine scheme of things and of the various modernisms that distort or hide the classical Christian tradition. Tracing his own ecumenical journey, he outlines an ecclesiology of communion and advances specific proposals for enhancing Christian unity in liturgy, spirituality, and church polity. The confessing movement named after Martin Luther he views in terms of its basic intent to reform and renew the church, not to start a new Christianity in a multiplicity of separate denominations.
Vigorous, provocative, well and clearly argued, Braaten's case is a formidable and timely contribution to the ecumenical debate.
Quoting Augustine's dictum that "You cannot have God for your father unless you have the church for your mother," Braaten writes of the church's place in the divine scheme of things and of the various modernisms that distort or hide the classical Christian tradition. Tracing his own ecumenical journey, he outlines an ecclesiology of communion and advances specific proposals for enhancing Christian unity in liturgy, spirituality, and church polity. The confessing movement named after Martin Luther he views in terms of its basic intent to reform and renew the church, not to start a new Christianity in a multiplicity of separate denominations.
Vigorous, provocative, well and clearly argued, Braaten's case is a formidable and timely contribution to the ecumenical debate.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800630829
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 176
- Publication Date April 24, 1998
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- The Tragedy of the Reformation and the Return to Catholicity
- The Reunited Church of the Future
- The Kingdom of God and the Church
- The Gospel and the Crisis of Authority
- The Teaching Authority of the Church
- Jesus and the Church: An Essay on Ecclesial Hermeneutics
- Doing Theology for the Church under the Authority of Scripture
- The Future of Lutheranism in America
The Century of the Church
The Tragedy of the Reformation
The New Catholic View of Luther
Evangelical Catholicity
The End of the Protestant Era?
Basic Differences
The Church We Long For
The Underdeveloped Doctrine of the Church
The Structural Problem of the Church
The Gospel and Church Order
Ecclesiastical Office and Apostolic Succession
The Relativity of the Church
The Anachronism of Authoritarianism
Change in Eschatological Perspective
The Quest for an Adequate Eschatology
The Eschatological Horizon of the Church in History
Permanent Tensions in the Doctrine of the Church
Authority and Freedom in the Church
The Pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic Model of Authority
Biblicism and Historical Criticism
The Retreat to Confessionalism
The Mystical Way
A Perennial Paradigm
Models of the Church
An Evangelical Catholic View of Lutheran Identity
Satis est Reductionism
Orthodoxy and Heresy
The Third Quest of the Historical Jesus
A Theological Critique of the Historical Jesus Project
Elements of Ecclesial Hermeneutics
The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church
Two Ways of Doing Theology
Signals of Transcendence
The Principle of Referentiality
Revelation and Salvation
The Authority of Scripture
A Chalcedonian Hermeneutic
The Legacy of Protestant Liberalism
The Progestantization of Lutheranism in America
A Proposal for the Future
Notes
Index of Persons and Subjects