Ecclesiology

In these pages, Richard Baxter addresses Christians around Europe in a time of religious upheaval. Here, he strives to show how Christians of all b...

Calvin's views on the Sabbath are the subject of claim and counterclaim. This book brings together two controversial themes: Calvin's ideas on Chur...

Theologians have long debated the significance of the Jewish religion for the Christian Church. Some scholars see Thomas Aquinas as the leading adv...

What is the church?What makes the church church?In this volume, theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides an up-to-date survey and analysis of the ...

Ecclesiology—the doctrine of the church—has risen to the center of theological interest in recent decades. In this text, theologian Veli-Matti Kärk...

Why does church government matter? In this book, Guy Prentiss Waters offers a brief and accessible introduction to presbyterianism that shows how a...

How God Ministers to His People and the World through the Local Church The church is more than coffee with friends—it’s a meaningful gathering of C...

In "Conflict and Convergence in Theology and Church", leading thinker on Anglicanism and ecumenism Paul Avis focuses on the perennial Christian iss...

Why Missions and Evangelism Are an Overflow of Delighting in God Evangelism and missions are parts of the Christian life often accompanied by fears...

Culture has changed and the church has not changed adequately in response. This is the claim of a number of authors and practitioners as they insti...

The field of ecclesiology is rapidly expanding as new material, theories, methods, and approaches are being explored. This raises important and cha...

As the twentieth century passed its midpoint and was rushing toward its end, a growing number of Majority World theologians came to realize that th...

Christianity and Pluralism is a collection of concise yet thoughtful essays by J. I. Packer and Ron Dart, interacting with and responding to the fo...

A thought–provoking introduction to the importance of the local church It seems that increasing numbers of professing Christians in the West do not...

How the Church’s Mission and Knowledge of God Are Intertwined Many Christians know they should be passionate about evangelism, but in reality they ...

This English translation from the Dutch volume is a study of a quotation by St. Augustine as it was understood in the late medieval period. Marijn ...

There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and thro...

The Westminster Handbook to Reformed Theology is a superb and uniquely designed reference tool for scholars, pastors, and students, featuring compa...

In this latest addition to the popular REDS series, Bryan Estelle expounds on the primary mission of the Church.

In an age when the church is sometimes viewed as irrelevant and inauthentic, leading Pentecostal theologian Terry Cross calls the people of God to ...

Questions of ecclesiology abound, and Karl Barth has been regarded as an unhelpful conversation partner and guide for those who care about ecclesio...

The Pauline epistles are filled with beautiful and provocative metaphors for the church: it is a bride, a body, a flock, a temple. Each of these me...

Awakening Affection for the Beauty of God’s Church Dear. Precious. Lovely. The Bible describes the church in extraordinary ways, even using beauti...

What is the Church? Why does it need to exist, and why is it so important? In this important addition to the Good Portion series, Erin Wheeler unpa...

Historically, studies of the church in Africa have tended to focus on church history or church-state relations, but in this publication David Zac N...

A Concise Systematic Theology of the Church The word church evokes different thoughts from different people-some think of a group of people who mee...

The figures associated with Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s ministry are staggering. Between his preaching and the printings of his sermons, he reached h...

Christ has ascended. Yet his work continues. Much has been made of a "missional" view of the church in recent theological literature, but largel...

Carnegie Calian challenges churches and their members to become committed to their own success and to take ownership of their future. He identifies...

Seeking the Church intends to introduce students, teachers and inquirers to key themes and dynamics in being the Church. In a time of significant c...

The doctrine of the Church was contentious as Lutherans argued for the scriptural catholicity of their churches, which embraced the Reformation ove...

What is the relationship between the church and the state?As a theologian and pastor, Abraham Kuyper was greatly concerned about the state of the D...

It is no secret that isolation--in political, cultural, physical, and social forms--is one of the key ailments of our age. But less explored is the...

The relationship between the Church and the Scriptures of Israel is fraught with complexities, particularly about how the first Christians read Scr...

Ecclesiology is a key issue for the present age of church history. This groundbreaking work by one of today's leading theologians offers a major Pr...

Here, Wallace Alston Jr. presents for us a newly revised and expanded version of his book, The Church. Alston summarizes the identity, nature, and ...

The New Testament is filled with imagery illustrating the co-operative efforts of Christian individuals within their local church: working together...

What is church? What spaces does church occupy? Can ecclesial space exist beyond the boundaries of church? In An Interweaving Ecclesiology Mark Sca...

Examining the New Testament Fulfillment of Old Testament Messianic Promises The Old Testament is a book filled with promises. From God’s covenants ...

Christians regularly ask God to forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, but tend to focus on the first half and ignore the second.Somethin...