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100 1  Bradbury, John P.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       nb2015019167 
245 10 Perpetually reforming :|ba theology of church reform and 
       renewal /|cJohn P. Bradbury. 
264  1 London :|bBloomsbury,|c2013. 
300    1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages). 
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490 1  Ecclesiological investigations ;|vvolume 14 
490 1  T & T Clark theology 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  1. Introduction. The problem with 'Church' -- The Church 
       in the twenty-first century context -- The Church, 
       theology and the theologian -- An outline of the work as a
       whole -- 2. Visible and Invisible? The contours of a 
       problem -- John Calvin: The dualism of election -- Karl 
       Barth: The dualism of time and eternity -- Locating the 
       'Problem' of ecclesiological dualisms -- 3. Confessional 
       Identities. The practice of confessing -- Attending to a 
       confessional voice: The Basis of Union of the United 
       Reformed Church -- Re-formation and confessional 
       identities -- 4. Confessional Re-formation: The Example of
       the Church and the Jewish People. Calvin and classic 
       reformed confessional texts -- Karl Barth and contemporary
       reformed confessions of faith -- The process of re-
       formation -- The implications of re-formation -- 5. 
       Biblical Re-formations. Covenantal re-formations -- A 
       covenant with all: Noah and the first covenant -- The 
       covenant with Abraham: The election of a sociality -- The 
       Sinai covenant: The centrality of the practice of law -- 
       New covenants? -- Renewing the canon: Scripture re-reading
       scripture -- 6. The Covenantal Identity of the Church -- 
       The 'New' covenant in Christ -- Jesus and the extensive 
       ecclesial movement -- Orientations to the future -- Why 
       the Church? -- 7. The Practices of Identity Renewal -- The
       mediation of social identity: The contribution of 
       'collective memory' -- Practices of remembrance: 
       Collective memory in the Deuteronomic tradition -- The 
       reformatory practices of the Church -- 8. Toward the 
       Reformation of the Church. The Church and the world -- 
       Finding our orientations -- Reforming and renewing 
       scriptural practices -- Perpetual reformation. 
520    One of the slogans of the reformation was ecclesia 
       reformata semper reformanda - 'the reformed church always 
       reforming'. Churches throughout the western world are 
       currently engaged in reform and renewal programmes through
       internal structural reforms as well as movements like 
       'emerging church'. This book presents a challenging 
       theology of church reform and renewal that offers a 
       contemporary understanding of this historic slogan. Taking
       an interdisciplinary approach, Bradbury discerns processes
       and practices which are perpetually reforming and renewing
       the identity of the church. It examines doc. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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650  0 Church renewal.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85025743 
650  7 Church renewal.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/860921
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aBradbury, John P.|tPerpetually 
       reforming.|dLondon : Bloomsbury, 2013|z9780567644091
       |w(OCoLC)841180042 
830  0 Ecclesiological investigations ;|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2008136277|vv. 14. 
830  0 T & T Clark theology.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/no2007133966 
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