Perspectives on ecclesiology and ethnography / edited by Pete Ward. - Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012. - viii, 254 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cm. - Studies in ecclesiology and ethnography .

Includes bibliographical references.

Ecclesiology and ethnography : two disciplines, two worlds? / Paul S. Fiddes -- Attention and conversation / Pete Ward -- Ecclesiology "from the body" : ethnographic notes toward a carnal theology / Christian Scharen -- "Where is your church?" : moving toward a hospitable and sanctified ethnography / John Swinton -- Charting the "ethnographic turn" : theologians and the study of Christian congregations / Elizabeth Phillips -- The cultivation of theological vision : theological attentiveness and the practice of ministy / Alister E. McGrath -- Interpreting a situation : when is "empirical" also "theological"? / Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- Generating Christian political theory and the uses of ethnography / Luke Bretherton -- Practical ecclesiology : what counts as theology in studying the church? / Clare Watkins (with Deborah Bhatti, Helen Cameron, Catherine Duce, and James Sweeney) -- Ecclesiology, ethnography, and God : an interplay of reality descriptions / Nicholas M. Healy -- "In the society of God" : some principles of ecclesiology / John Webster -- The church "taking form" in mission : reimagining family ministries within the mission Dei / Richard R. Osmer.

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Church.
Ethnology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theology--Methodology.

BV600.3 / .P48 2011

262.0089