The Church According to the New Testament.The Church According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the New Testament Daniel Harrington, S.J. Sheed & Ward, $19.95, 187 pp. Daniel Harrington is one of the most productive and readable biblical scholars in the English-speaking world. His work as editor of New Testament Abstracts guarantees that there is little in the world of scholarship that he has not read and digested. In addition to his scholarly contributions, he has the gift of putting that scholarship at the service of the church. Here he offers a lucid survey of the New Testament witness to the way the followers followers see dairy herd. of the Jesus movement For the first century movement surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, see Early Christianity The Jesus movement was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within the Christian Church. grew into an assembly (ekklesia) of believers, who carry on the tradition of proclaiming and celebrating who Jesus was, what he did, and why it is worthy of remembrance. This close reading of the New Testament keeps a basic fact in mind: one must read with an eye both on what is behind the text (for example, the believing community which produced a particular gospel), and the way--and ways--in which the text is received once it has appeared. Harrington concludes each chapter with a coda titled "Possibilities and Problems." This final section sets out the core issues treated in the chapter, and suggests the way these issues may touch contemporary discussions. His reflections can be quite provocative: If there is no clear understanding of a fixed ministry (especially the concept of "priest") in the New Testament, does that mean that ministry is now a closed discussion or open to further developments? This passing observation, of course, has all kinds of ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl for present discussions about ministry. Along with chapters on each of the various clusters of New Testament texts (the Pauline, Johannine, and so forth), Harrington concludes with reflections on the church in the world, ministry, and ministers. This book could be used as the center of a course on the church, or as a text for a catechetical cat·e·che·sis n. pl. cat·e·che·ses Oral instruction given to catechumens. [Late Latin cat or adult enrichment course. I read it while covering similar material in a class for first-year university students and found it to be quite illuminating and user-friendly. It also has the merit of bridging the world of historical critical scholarship and the world of ecclesiology ec·cle·si·ol·o·gy n. 1. The branch of theology that is concerned with the nature, constitution, and functions of a church. 2. The study of ecclesiastical architecture and ornamentation. today: Harrington shows that there need not be any chasm between the world of the scholar and the world of faith. Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame . |
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