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100	1		_aBradbury, J. Platt _q(John Platt), _e1
245	1	0	_aPerpetually reforming : _ba theology of church reform and renewal / _cJohn P. Bradbury. _hPR
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c(c)2013.
300			_axiv, 232 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEcclesiological investigations ; _vv. 14
490	1		_aT&T Clark theology
504			_a1 (pages 223.-228) and indexes.
505	0	0	_a1. Introduction. The problem with 'church' -- _tThe church in the twenty-first century context -- _tThe church, theology and the theologian -- _tAn outline of the work as a whole -- _t2. Visible and invisible? The contours of a problem -- _tJohn Calvin : the dualism of election -- _tKarl Barth : the dualism of time and eternity -- _tLocating the 'problem' of ecclesiological dualisms -- _t3. Confessional Identities. The practice of confessing -- _tAttending to a confessional voice : the basis of union of the united reformed church -- _tRe-formation and confessional identities -- _t4. Confessional re-formation the example of the church and the Jewish people. Calvin and classic reformed confessional texts -- _tKarl Barth and contemporary reformed confessions of faith -- _tThe process of re-formation -- _tThe implications of re-formation -- _t5. Biblical re-formations. Covenantal re-formations -- _tA covenant with all : Noah and the first covenant -- _tThe covenant with Abraham : the election of a sociality -- _tThe Sinai covenant : the centrality of the practice of law -- _tNew covenants? -- _tRenewing the canon : scripture re-reading scripture -- _t6. The covenantal Identity of the church -- _tThe 'new' covenant in Christ -- _tJesus and the extensive ecclesial movement -- _tOrientations to the future -- _tWhy the church? -- _t7. The practices of Identity renewal -- _tThe mediation of social identity : the contribution of 'collective memory' -- _tPractices of remembrance : collective memory in the Deuteronomic tradition -- _tThe reformatory practices of the Church -- _t8. Toward the reformation of the church. The church and the world -- _tFinding our orientations -- _tReforming and renewing scriptural practices -- _tPerpetual reformation.
520	0		_aOne 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 programs 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.
530			_a2
830		0	_aEcclesiological investigations ; _vv.14.
830		0	_aT & T Clark theology.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell