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S'està carregant… Unlearning Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community in an Unstable Agede Gerald W. Schlabach
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In this clearly written and insightful book, Gerald Schlabach addresses the "Protestant dilemma" in ecclesiology: how to build lasting Christian community in a world of individualism and transience. Schlabach, a former Mennonite who is now Catholic, seeks not to encourage readers to abandon Protestant churches but to relearn some of the virtues that all Christian communities need to sustain their communal lives. He offers a vision for the right and faithful roles of authority, stability, and loyal dissent in Christian communal life. The book deals with issues that transcend denominations and will appeal to all readers, both Catholic and Protestant, interested in sustaining Christian tradition and community over time. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)262.0011Religions Christian church and church work Church Polity; Ecclesiology Ecclesiastic Polity Philosophy and theoryLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: Sense puntuar.Ets tu?Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing. |
The thrust of the book is that what he sees as the Catholic tradition of stable community, is much needed by those in the Protestant tradition. He holds the so-called "Protestant Principle" of a Church always in need of reform is indeed true, but that Protestant history shows that it is destructive of community (and Church) if held as an absolute, unbalanced by the Catholic understanding of community, stability and tradition.
A Benedictine Oblate, Schlabach puts forward the Benedictine tradition's vow of stability as a model of the Catholic approach, and notes the post-Vatican II tendency for vigorous theological debate WITHIN the Church as a model for our Protestant Brothers and Sisters. By contrast he sees the Second Vatican Council as an example of the Church's acceptance of the Protestant principle that the Church is in constant need of reform.
I must say that his models for "loyal dissent" within the Catholic tradition (Joan Chittister anyone?) didn't give this reader a clear sense that Schlabach has fully grasped the Catholic principle of authoritative magisterial teaching. It's one thing to debate theological issues before the Church has spoken authoritatively, it's another after. His contemporary authorities seem limited to the writers of Commonweal and America, certainly an interesting bunch, but hardly representative of the breadth of the tradition he affirms so strongly. Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair Macintyre are two of his more academic influences.
Originally a Mennonite, the author has entered the Roman Catholic Church while maintaining a connection with his original Mennonite Church, as well as with Bridgefolk. Definitely worth a read, but not the whole story in my view.