Gathered on the Road to Zion
Toward a Free Church Ecclesio-Anthropology
- Theology
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Churches are filled with human beings. It is as a community of human creatures that the church gathers together on Sunday mornings to worship the triune God, and it is as a community of creatures that its members participate in the church's liturgical life. However, merely noting that the church and human beings are related to one another leaves the nature of this relationship unresolved and undefined. And this raises an important question: How should the doctrine of the church inform our understanding of what it means to be human? This project is an exercise in ecclesio-anthropology, albeit from a Free Church perspective. In it Daniel Lee Hill seeks to discover how the nature, practices, mission, and telos of the church robustly inform our understanding of the human creature.
Endorsements (3)
“Daniel Hill’s work exemplifies the dialogical possibilities of biblically committed, yet teachable, evangelical theology. The dialogue he pursues in this book shines a helpful spotlight on the connection between our nurture in the church and the nature of our humanity.”
“Daniel Hill interacts with theological giants—John Zizioulas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Stanley Hauerwas—in building his ecclesio-anthropology. His thesis is that ecclesiology—that is, the nature, mission, practices, and telos of the church—provides necessary insight into the study of human imagination, vocation, formation, and flourishing. Thus ecclesio-anthropology provides enriching insight into the nature of human action, the goodness of human embodiment, and the teleological nature of human creatures.”
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