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Subject(s)

• Church [Browse]
• Church history [Browse]

Series

Sarum theological lectures [More in this series]

Summary note

The old saying about being condemned to repeat the history we don't know applies to Church history as much as to anything else. But we are often at a loss to know how to approach it. Much of what passed once for Church history was propagandist; and much of the best now written is brilliantly done but apparently detached from the Church's present needs. We need a theological approach to Church history but not one that is just partisan. In seeking to explore this need, Rowan Williams offers some reflection on how we think about the past in general - a complex issue in today's culture. Emerging from this is a sense of the importance of Church history as something that deepens our present thinking and obliges us to think with more varied and resourceful analogies about our present problems.

Notes

Originally published: Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, c2005.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-125) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 1. Making history : what do we expect from the past?
• 2. Resident aliens : the identity of the early church
• 3. Grace alone : continuity and novelty in the Reformation era
• 4. History and renewal : the records of the body of Christ.

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ISBN

0232525498

LCCN

^^2005363500

OCLC

59811232

RCP

H - S

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