Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity

by Steve Summers

Overview

Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding the church today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567490643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/2010
Series:	Ecclesiological Investigations , #7
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Revd. Steve Summers is an Anglican parish priest in the Diocese of Portsmouth. He has a particular interest in how the Church engages with postmodern culture.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Methodology
Scholarship
Structure

SECTION ONE
Chapter 1 - 'YOU ARE MY FRIENDS' A textual survey
Chapter 2 - FRIENDSHIP'S POSTMODERN CONTEXT

SECTION TWO
Chapter 3 - FRIENDSHIP IN THE CLASSICAL ERA AND BEYOND
Chapter 4 - A THEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF FRIENDSHIP
Chapter 5 - FRIENDS - THE SELF AND THE OTHER

SECTION THREE
Chapter 6 - FRIENDSHIP'S PARTICULARITY
Chapter 7 - THE CHURCH - A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS

CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY