Gerard Mannion

Apostolic and Prophetic

Theology

“"This book will challenge, inform, and delight all who are passionate about the church today. From one of the most committed and creative Lutheran ecumenists around, it delves deeply into the history of the church to draw forth empowering and inspiring ecclesial perspectives for today and tomorrow alike. Seeking to retrieve an understanding of what lies at the true heart of apostolicity and the literally radical nature of the Gospel itself, exploring and explicating the nature and actuality of ecumenical dialogue, and offering a vision for the church that resonates loudly with the good news that was proclaimed in first-century Palestine, this work will be required reading for those involved in dialogue today and will enhance any course that deals with ecumenism and contemporary ecclesiology. Gesa Thiessen has performed an important service to the theological community in bringing this work into being. It 'sends forth' a message of truly good news concerning the kingdom of God to a world so in need of such--apostolic and prophetic indeed.”

Communion Ecclesiology and Social Transformation in African Catholicism

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Ecclesiology in the Trenches

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Reconstructing Theology

Theology

“Reconstructing Theology is an important and groundbreaking study that performs a great service for the wider theological community in providing arguably the most substantial and incisive study of the work of Harvard University’s Francis Schüssler Fiorenza to date. This volume takes its reader on a journey through the formation and critical development of Fiorenza’s theological method and vision, and pays especial attention to the role of hermeneutics in shaping that vision. But the volume then offers much more: it seeks to explore how that method and vision can be applied to questions of vital importance for the theological community today. Like its subject, who helped bridge discourse between German and American theology in so many fruitful ways, this study will prove an important resource text in courses in the great theological departments of continental Europe, North America, and beyond.”