Church

Community for the Kingdom

By: John Fuellenbach

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Integrating missiology and ecclesiology in a vision of a church in mission made up of all the world's peoples, Fuellenbach explores the church's life as worshiping community, as communion, as Body of Christ working to make the world reflect Kingdom values.

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Preface to the ASM Series	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Presuppositions	p. 1
Essential Relationships: Jesus and the Kingdom, the Church, and Israel	p. 6
Overview of This Book	p. 12
The Church in Scripture and in Vatican II
Jesus and the Church	p. 17
Return to the Jesus Who Walked This Earth	p. 17
Biblical Insights into Israel, Kingdom, and Church	p. 18
Jesus and the Foundation of the Church	p. 28
The Church in the Teaching of Vatican II	p. 36
The Council's Theological Vision of the Church	p. 36
Retrieving Biblical Images of the Church	p. 38
The New People of God	p. 38
The Church as Body of Christ	p. 47
The Church as Temple of the Holy Spirit	p. 58
The Meaning of "Church" in the Teaching of Vatican II	p. 67
Church as Catholic Church	p. 67
Church as Local Congregation	p. 68
Church as Community of the Baptized	p. 69
Church Refers to the People of Israel	p. 70
The Church from Abel On	p. 70
The House Church	p. 72
The Church in the Context of the Kingdom	p. 74
The Church in Relation to the World and to God's Plan of Salvation	p. 74
The Church as Not Identical with the Kingdom	p. 76
The Kingdom of God as Present in the Church	p. 87
Models of the Church
Emergence of a World Church	p. 93
A Theological Interpretation of Vatican II as "World Church"	p. 94
The First Epoch: Jewish Christianity	p. 95
The Second Epoch: The Gentile Christian Community Freed from Jewish Law	p. 96
The Third Epoch: Transition from a Western Church to a World Church	p. 98
Megatrends Affecting the Church Today	p. 100
The Four Sources of Theology	p. 104
Bible, Tradition, and the Magisterium	p. 104
The Ongoing Life of the Worshiping Community	p. 105
The Life Situation of the Committed Community	p. 105
The Presence of the Holy Spirit	p. 106
The Use of Models in Ecclesiology	p. 108
What Is a Model?	p. 108
Different Models of Church	p. 113
The Church as Community of Disciples	p. 114
The Church as Institution	p. 119
The Origin of Religious Orders in Prophetic Protest	p. 134
The Church as Communion	p. 147
Weaknesses of the Communion Model	p. 152
The Church as Sacrament	p. 155
The Church as Herald	p. 161
The Church as Servant	p. 163
Concluding Remarks on Using Models in Ecclesiology	p. 165
Two Models for the Future Church: Basic Ecclesial Communities and a Contrast Society	p. 167
Overview of the Present Ecclesial Situation	p. 167
Church as Basic Ecclesial Communities	p. 173
The Church as a Contrast Society	p. 196
Can the Church Be a Contrast Society Today?	p. 199
Mission of the Church	p. 208
Threefold Mission	p. 208
Two Ways of Being in Mission	p. 213
The Church, the Universal Sacrament of Salvation and Mediator of the Kingdom	p. 214
Kingdom Consciousness and the Mission of the Church	p. 219
Concluding Reflections on Church and Kingdom	p. 221
Epilogue	p. 223
Selected Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 233
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