God's Church-Community

David Emerton argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer''s ecclesial thought breaks open a necessary ''third way'' in ecclesiological description between the Scylla of ''ethnographic'' ecclesiology and the Charybdis of ''dogmatic'' ecclesiology. Building on a rigorous and provocative discussion of Bonhoeffer''s thought, Emerton establishes a programmatic theological grammar for any speech about the church.

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