Can God Save the Church?: Living Faith . . . While Keeping Doubt

Can God Save the Church? is a comprehensive and illuminating review of some aspects of life in and around the church with which those who care deeply about its message mission witness and legacy should be passionately concerned. Christian traditions are often assailed by conflicts of theology and discipline contradictions of beliefs and practices as well as compromises with trials and trends that readily betray the full measure and meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This volume serves to enumerate some clear options for faithful witness and courageous service that would more readily reflect the essential and contextual purposes of the churchs existence. Fresh concepts of God in Covenant and Change or of The Church as a Communion of Faith Life and Witness or even of the call for a vision for Christian Partnership for Social Change all converge to make this book a useful tool for study teaching and radical reflection in seminaries local congregations and beyond. The postscript in this edition adds further challenges to the contemporary churchs call for radical Christian witness and the relentless determination to work for Gods freedom justice and salvific wholeness in human life.