Can These Bones Live?: A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory

by Barry Harvey

Overview

In this book, Barry Harvey offers a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ. Writing from a postliberal, post-Constantinian perspective, Harvey outlines how the church, in its current Western setting, needs to recover and reinvigorate core ecclesial practices in order to "remember the scattered followers of Jesus into the earthy-historical form of the crucified and risen Christ." These core practices include the theological interpretation of Scripture, the development of sound doctrine, the centrality of baptism and the Eucharist, the exercises of spiritual discipline, and the cultivation of the church as a distinctive social body. This book will serve as a useful text for students of ecclesiology, systematic theology, missiology, and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441237279
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Barry Harvey (PhD, Duke University) is professor of theology in the Honors College at Baylor University, author of Another City: An Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World, and coauthor of StormFront: The Good News of God. He lives in Hewitt, Texas.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Where, Then, Do We Stand? Toward an Ecclesially-Based Theological Hermeneutics
1. Can These Bones Live?
2. Caught Up in the Apocalypse
3. Let Us Be Like The Nations: Caught Up in the Powers and Principalities of the Present Age
4. Lovers, Madmen, and Pilgrim Poets: Imagination, Memory, and Scriptural Reasoning
5. Doctrinally Speaking
6. Sacramental Sinews: Liturgy and the Remembering of Christ's Body
7. Holy Vulnerable: Spiritual Formation and the Politics of the Spirit
8. Living in Tents: Becoming Artisans of the Age to Come
Index