Confessions of a Heretic: Volume 3: Ecclesiological Considerations

By Eric Leland Saak

What makes the Church the Church?

Eric Leland Saak argues that the Church is not, at its core, a moral, political or social community. It is a religio-theological one, and that makes it, necessarily, an authoritative community. From there he makes the case for the primacy of the Roman Catholic tradition.

Starting from anthropological and sociological analysis, the book rethinks ecclesiology from the ground up. That analysis forms the basis for an account of ethics, which in turn leads back to the Church as part of what Saak calls God's Divine Symphony.

This is the final volume of Confessions of a Heretic, a three-volume systematic theology that moves from philosophy (Volume 1, God the Creator) to theology proper (Volume 2, God the Perfector) to the Church (Volume 3, God the Performer). Volume 3 stands on its own, though it builds on the first two. Throughout, the project applies the doctrines of Augustine, especially from The City of God, to the Church today in a postmodern setting.

For readers of ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, church history and Christian theology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665796502
• ISBN13: 9781665796507
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Length: 702 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"