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Longenecker,Richard N

Community Formation in the Early Church and in the Church Today - Michigan Baker Academic 2002 - 251p

1. The Social Context
Greco-Roman Philosophic, Religion and Voluntary Association ........3
The Jewish Experience : Temple, Synagogue, Home and Fraternal Groups......20
Building an Association and a Place of Their Own .......36
2. The New Testament
The Ministry of Jesus in the Gospels .........59
Paul`s Vision of the Church and Community Formation in his Major Missionary Letters .............73
Divine Power, Community formation, and Leadership in the Acts of the Apostles .............89
Congregation and Ministry in the Pastoral Epistles .....105
3. The Early Centuries
Christian Ministry in Three Cities of the Western Empire .....129
Ministerial Forms and Functions in the Church Communities of the Greek Fathers .........157
4. The Church Today
The Self-Organizing Power of the Gospel : Episcopacy and Community Formation ............179
The Sanctified Life in the Body of Christ : A Presbyterian Form of Christian Community ............194
Community Formation as an Image of the Triune God..............213


ISBN: 9780801046964

Dewey Class. No.: C25 / L857