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An Introduction to Ecclesiology: Historical, Global, and Interreligious Perspectives is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the church? Why are there so many different expressions of church throughout time and space, and what ties them all together? Ecclesiology—the doctrine of the church—has risen to the center of theological interest in recent decades. In this text, theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides a wide-ranging survey of the rich field of ecclesiology in the midst of rapid developments and new...

of the church both in the West and elsewhere. The latter development is in general connected to what are nowadays known as Free Churches. The expression Free Churches involves two primary meanings. It refers to communities with congregationalist polity or church constitution, and it emphasizes a stated separation between church and state.5 New congregational models are emerging, especially in the Majority World but also in the West, and many specialists are of the opinion that the Free Church congregational
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