LEADER 00000cam a2200589Ka 4500 001 ocn849928773 003 OCoLC 005 20161029080459.1 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 130624s2013 enk ob 000 0 eng d 019 854520291|a870245662 020 9780567363336|q(electronic book) 020 0567363333|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780567644091 020 |z056764409X 035 (OCoLC)849928773|z(OCoLC)854520291|z(OCoLC)870245662 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dE7B|dOCLCF|dIDEBK|dCDX|dEBLCP |dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 049 RIDW 050 4 BV600.3|b.B733 2013eb 072 7 REL|x067050|2bisacsh 082 04 262.0017|223 090 BV600.3|b.B733 2013eb 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). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 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 Collection - North America 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 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=598808|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20161103|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic new|lridw 994 92|bRID