Shaping the Church: The Promise of Implicit Theology

This book seeks to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the church. Taking the ideas of composition, formation and vocation as basic ecclesial categories, Martyn Percy explores how apparently innocent and incidental material is in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiological horizons.

The Introduction sets the tone, with a meditation on how the apparently ordinary scent of a country church can be...