The Church in a World of Religions: Working Papers in Theology
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In this collection of essays, Tom Greggs explores the nature of the church in a world of many religions. Greggs' writings on the Church and on other religions emphasize the importance of attentiveness to Christ and the Holy Spirit, and both are simultaneously generous and particularist.
The first part of the book addresses the Church as it is brought into being by the Spirit in glorifying God, celebrates the sacraments, respects the authority of the creeds, is generously Catholic, and critiques its own religion. The second part looks at the church in a pluralist context as it engages in inter-faith dialogue, expresses both particularism and universalism, speaks of Christ with many names, and reads scripture and understands the many covenants found there. Greggs offers a programmatic conclusion, setting an agenda for theologies of the church and of other religions and their simultaneous relationality.
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- Addresses the Church within and in a pluralist context
- Explores the nature of the church in a world with many religions
- Suggests that theologies of the church and of other religions can find common points to work with
Part One: Essays on the Church
- Proportion and Topography in Ecclesiology
- Communio Ecclesiology
- The Glory of God and the People of God
- A Strangely Warmed Heart in a Strange World
- Church and Sacraments
- A Protestant Account of the Authority of the Creeds
- The Catholic Spirit of Protestantism
- A Church against Religion
Part Two: The Church in a World of Religions
- Beyond the Binary
- Particularist Universalism
- The Many Names of Christ in Wisdom
- Reading Scripture in a Pluralist Age
- Peoples of the Covenant
- Legitimizing and Necessitating Inter-faith
- Preaching Inter-faith