Does God Need the Church?: Toward a Theology of the People of God

by Gerhard Lohfink

Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church?

In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt? (translated into English as Jesus and Community) to show, on the basis of the New Testament, that faith is founded in a community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814659284
• ISBN13: 9780814659281
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"