Synopses & Reviews
As the title of this engaging book suggests, catholicity was the true intent of the Reformation. The Reformers did not set out to create what later came to be known as Protestant Christianity. Theirs was a quest for reformation and renewal in continuity with the one holy catholic and apostolic church of ancient times. The authors of the essays collected here demonstrate this catholicity of the Reformers and stress the importance of recovering the church'scatholic tradition today.Contributors: Robert W. Jenson, David S. Yeago, Frank C. Senn, Carl E. Braaten, James R. Crumley, Robert L. Wilken, G]nther Gassmann
Table of Contents
The church as communio / Robert W. Jenson -- The Catholic Luther / David S. Yeago -- The reform of the mass : evangelical, but still Catholic / Frank C. Senn -- The problem of authority in the church / Carl E. Braaten -- The pastoral office : a Catholic and ecumenical perspective / James R. Crumley -- Lutheran pietism and Catholic piety / Robert L. Wilken -- The church is a communion of churches / G