Friendship : exploring its implications for the church in postmodernity

Friendship : exploring its implications for the church in postmodernity / Steve Summers.

Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding of the church today. Since Jesus' statement in St John's gospel "I call you friends" the concept of friendship has had a huge influence on the Christian understanding...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summers, S. (Steve)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2009.
Series:T & T Clark theology.
Ecclesiological investigations.
Subjects:
Friendship > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Church.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Church
Friendship > Religious aspects > Christianity
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. 'You are my friends'
  • Friendship's postmodern context
  • Part II. Friendship in the Classical era and beyond
  • A theological understanding of friendship
  • Friends
  • the self and the other
  • Part III. Friendship's particularity
  • The Church
  • a community of friends
  • Conclusion.

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