Contents
Part I: The Church in the 16th Century
1. Luther's Ecclesiology
2. Calvin's Ecclesiology
3. The Church of England
4. Anabaptist, Baptist, and Roman Ecclesiology
Part II: The Church in the Modern Period
5. Modern Ecclesiology
6. 20th Century Ecclesiology: The World Council of Churches,
Vatican II, and
Liberation Ecclesiology
7. 20th Century Ecclesiology: Orthodox and Pentecostal
Ecclesiologies and BEM
Conclusion: Ecclesiology in the 21st Century
Roger Haight, SJ, has a PhD from the University of Chicago (1973) and a STL from the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago (1981). He has taught for over 30 years in Jesuit schools of theology in Chicago, Toronto, the Philippines, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a visiting professor in France, India, Peru, and Kenya. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1994/95). Jesus Symbol of God won 1st place in the Catholic Press Association's 2000 Book Award for theology. Dynamics of Theology won 2nd place in CPA's 1991 Book Award for Theology. His most recent work is Christian Community in History in 2 volumes. He currently teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
"While maintaining the theological nature of his study, Roger
Haight's historical ecclesiology lays a sturdy foundation in a
historical, sociological analysis of the beginnings and development
of the Christian Church from its origin in Jesus of Nazareth to the
eve of the Reformation.... This is a groundbreaking volume...
Haight has served all ecclesiologists well by initiating a way of
looking at ecclesiology as it develops on the ground, so to speak.
He has done it with theological integrity and clear analyses. He
challenges us all to understand differences as values and the most
appropriate way for the incarnation to continue through human
history, honoring both the human and the divine whether in the
stable or the palace of the council chamber." -Catholic Studies/
http://www.CatholicBooksReview.org/, 2005
Cover Story Feature on Haight -National Catholic Reporter,
2/25/05
"The esteemed Roger Haight excels in addressing where the church
and theology currently find themselves. This represents his most
extensive work to date in ecclesiology and is a monumental
two-volume study in comparative ecclesiology, building upon the
insights developed in recent years in the more general
subdiscipline of comparative theology. This is a work of immense
scholarship, yet it is wonderfully accessible in style and prose.
It deserves to become the standard work in its field for some time
to come." -Journal of American Academy of Religion, June 2006
The result is indeed an intrguing florilegium of complex
autobiographical accounts that not only reflect upon stages of
one's intellectual development, but are also valuable records of
the cultural, social and ecclesial setting of a particular epoch of
general and church history in various corners of the world... The
reflections are at once personal, conversational in style, not
without gentle humour and a sense of self-effacement, and yet they
also reveal the deepest convictions, hard struggles and
long-lasting concerns that animate one's scholarly activity. The
ultimate questions that we see as underlying these reflections
concern the nature of theology and the identity of the theologian.
It is highly personal amd yet universally valid answers to these
twin-questions that make this book particularly interesting for
everyone attracted by, in the editors' words, 'this wonderful
discipline'. - Louvain Studies
"With the first volume of his ‘ecclesiology from below,' Roger
Haight has clearly again established himself as a pioneer in the
creation of historical theology. Using historical study to recover
as far as we can the actual experience of Christians in past
centuries and then drawing on social scientific methodology to
analyze this evidence, he has reflected on this ‘data'
theologically to distill the dynamics inherent in the development
of structured Christianity. I eagerly await volume 2 that promises
a truly theological tracing of Christianity's evolution from the
Reformation to the present." -Bernard Cooke
*Blurb from reviewer*
"Roger Haight has made a major contribution to the area of
ecclesiology. His contributions will clearly have a lasting value.
This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in theology
and the history of the Church." - Catholic Library World, September
2005
*Catholic Library World*
"Roger Haight's massive work, Christian Community in History, is a
significant achievement... Haight writes clearly, with a deep
historical sense and a good understanding of theological issues
*Scottish Journal of Theology*
Review in German in Theologische Literaturzeitung 131 (2006)
*Theologische Literaturzeitung*
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