The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant

Often nowadays one hears affirmations of spirituality and even religious life but rarely of institutional religion. Is the church dying?

Noted theologian Vtor Westhelle urges an emphatic no and traces the church crisis to an "ecclesiological deficit," a lack of serious reflection on the real role of church as an ideal community and an institutional reality. He finds real consensus among the Reformers on what church should mean, and he traces the competing historical notions of church, their ...