TY  - BOOK
AU  - Longenecker,Richard N 
TI  - Community Formation in the Early Church and in the Church Today 
SN  - 9780801046964
U1  - C25 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Michigan 
PB  - Baker Academic 
N1  - 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

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