Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity

Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity PDF Author: Steve Summers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567089908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Book Description
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 of community. But is the historical understanding of friendship enough to serve the needs of the church in a post-modern age? Steve Summers explores the limits of the concept as well as it's possible use in contemporary ecclesiology.