In this book, Barry Harvey offers a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ. Writing from a postliberal, post-Constantinian perspective, Harvey outlines how the church, in its current Western setting, needs to recover and reinvigorate core ecclesial practices in order to "remember the scattered followers of Jesus into the earthy-historical form of the crucified and risen Christ." These core practices include the theological interpretation of Scripture, the development of sound doctrine, the centrality of baptism and the Eucharist, the exercises of spiritual discipline, and the cultivation of the church as a distinctive social body. This book will serve as a useful text for students of ecclesiology, systematic theology, missiology, and ethics.
- ISBN10 1587430819
- ISBN13 9781587430817
- Publish Date 1 August 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Baker Publishing Group
- Imprint Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English