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Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this introduction to ecclesiology, respected scholars Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger offer a solidly evangelical yet ecumenical survey of the church in mission and doctrine. Combining biblical, historical, and cultural analysis, this comprehensive text explores the church as a Trinitarian, eschatological, worshipping, sacramental, serving, ordered, cultural, and missional community. It...

the sacraments. One instance of this failure resulted from the eclipse of biblical narrative beginning in the modern period. Hans Frei’s The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative chronicles this.12 Modern attempts to justify scripture’s legitimacy as fundamentally a textbook for gleaning doctrinal truths (fundamentalist-evangelicalism), exemplifying moral and philosophical ideals (liberalism), and demonstrating relevance for practical living (seeker-sensitive Christianity) fail to register that the Bible
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