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The church in the power of the spirit: a contribution to Messianic..

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It has been one of the distinct pleasures of my academic life to read the works of Jürgen Moltmann. Each text I pick up I find myself enjoying more, and can measure the growth of my own theological development by how much better I am understanding Moltmann. It is, I am finding, impossible to read any of Moltmann?s texts just once and fully understand it. All the books interact and inform each other in a dynamic way. The Church in the Power of the Spirit is Moltmann's "contribution to messianic ecclesiology", an exploration into what the Church is and why the Church exists.
This book expounds on the idea of there being an intimate connection between Christ and the Church. The Church is not only believing in and pointing towards the risen Christ, the Church has Christ as the foundation of its entire being. Moltmann writes, "Every statement about the church will be a statement about Christ. Every statement about Christ also implies a statement about the church." Any theological discussion about the Church..

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260 MOL c

Z. HANDIMAN

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260 MOL c

Publisher

New York : Harper & Row., 1975

Collation

xvii,407p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-06-065905-X

Classification

260

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Subject(s)

CHRISTIANITY AND CHURCH

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