Re-Imagining Life Together in America A New

Well written and highly accessible, this book interweaves a thorough review of developments in Christian community from the first century to the present with powerful new discoveries in scriptural, theological, and historical research that has uncovered deep communal strands in the foundational literature and notions of Christianity. The result is a profound call for the renewal of Christian community and churches as crucial models and inspirations for the new search for wholeness in America.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xiii

Part One: A Gospel of Community in Early Christianity

Introduction to Part One

3

(4)

The Emergence of Christian Community in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

7

(16)

Five Early Christian Communities

23

(12)

Communion: Meanings of Community take on Universal Significance

35

(26)

Part Two: The Community of God: Twentieth Century Theological and Philosophical Contributions

Introduction to Part Two

59

(2)

A Church Called Back to Its Roots

61

(16)

An Eastern Orthodox Contribution to Understanding Communion: The Work of John Zizioulas

77

(8)

Social Philosophers as Conversation Partners about Community

85

(28)

Communion and Liberation: The Contribution of Liberation and Feminist Theologians to Understanding Communion

113

(24)

Part Three: The Contemporary North American Social Situation as Crisis of Community

Introduction to Part Three

135

(2)

The American Disaster

137

(14)

The Crisis of Community in the Christian Churches of America

151

(16)

Part Four: A Gospel of Community for the Twenty-First Century

Introduction to Part Four

165

(2)

The Emergence of Christian Community in Contemporary America

167

(18)

Encountering Diverse ``Forms'' of Contemporary Christian Communities

185

(38)

Building Community: Exploring a Metaphor

223

(14)

Notes

237

(20)

Works Consulted

257

(8)

Index

265

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Re-Imagining Life Together in America A New Gospel of Community

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