The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought: The Church-Event

By William C. Ingle-gillis

Book Overview

Some hundred years from inception, the ecumenical movement is stagnating. William C. Ingle-Gillis argues that the problem lies in modern ecumenism's treatment of denominational Churches as provisional entities requiring reunion to be more fully Christ's Body. In a work unique both to ecumenical studies and to trinitarian theology, the author redefines ecclesial life from the premise that God's essence is personhood-in-communion and that the ultimate calling of human persons is to share as fully in the divine life as Christ himself. Concluding that the Churches are, by the Spirit's action, a tangible, dynamic event, wherein God makes visible his on-going reconciliation of the world to himself, Ingle-Gillis argues that the Churches' true life lies in coming-together, rather than being-together. This conclusion places ecumenism at the heart of Church life and witness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138259527
• ISBN13: 9781138259522
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"