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The Catholicity of the Reformation
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The Catholicity of the Reformation Paper back - 1996

by Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, November 1996. Paper Back. Fair. Highlighting in preface & chapter 1, first end page corner torn off, a solid reading copy.
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  • Title The Catholicity of the Reformation
  • Author Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fair
  • Pages 107
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Date November 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 203587
  • ISBN 9780802842206 / 0802842208
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 5.97 x 0.35 in (22.68 x 15.16 x 0.89 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Reformation - Congresses, Christian union - Congresses
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96044655
  • Dewey Decimal Code 270.6

From the rear cover

As the title of this engaging book suggests, "catholicity" was the true intent of the Reformation. The Reformers did not set out to create what later came to be known as Protestant Christianity. Theirs was a quest for reformation and renewal in continuity with the "one holy catholic and apostolic church" of ancient times. The authors of the essays collected here demonstrate this catholicity of the Reformers and stress the importance of recovering the church's catholic tradition today. Robert W. Jenson examines communio ecclesiology, describing ecumenical thought on this ecclesiology and developing it in a number of areas. David S. Yeago proposes a new way of reading Luther, suggesting that the shift in Luther's thought actually brought him closer to the church's catholic tradition. Frank C. Senn discusses the Reformers' changes to the order of the mass, which restored the people's participation and regular preaching on biblical texts. Carl E. Braaten explores the problems that arise from the lack of an office of teaching authority in Protestant churches. James R. Crumley examines various perspectives on the office of pastor, seeking to clarify the notion of ministry in the catholic tradition. Robert L. Wilken looks at Pietism, showing that this movement sought to recover lost aspects of medieval spirituality and called for a deepening of personal piety. Finally, Gunther Gassmann discusses the ways in which the church universal is and should be a communion of churches.

About the author

Carl E. Braaten is professor emeritus of systematic theology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and former executive director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017) was a leading Lutheran and ecumenical theologian. He served as codirector of the Institute for Theological Inquiry and was cofounder and longtime associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. Among his many significant books are A Religion against Itself, The Triune Identity, and the two-volume Systematic Theology.