Christian Community in History

Part I: The Church in the 16th Century 1. Luther's Ecclesiology 2. Calvin's Ecclesiology 3. The Church of England 4. Anabaptist, Baptist, and Roman Ecclesiology Part II: The Church in the Modern Period 5. Modern Ecclesiology 6. 20th Century Ecclesiology: The World Council of Churches, Vatican II, and Liberation Ecclesiology 7. 20th Century Ecclesiology: Orthodox and Pentecostal Ecclesiologies and BEM Conclusion: Ecclesiology in the 21st Century Biblliography Index

Roger Haight, SJ, has a PhD from the University of Chicago (1973) and a STL from the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago (1981). He has taught for over 30 years in Jesuit schools of theology in Chicago, Toronto, the Philippines, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a visiting professor in France, India, Peru, and Kenya. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1994/95). Jesus Symbol of God won 1st place in the Catholic Press Association's 2000 Book Award for theology. Dynamics of Theology won 2nd place in CPA's 1991 Book Award for Theology. His most recent work is Christian Community in History in 2 volumes. He currently teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

The result is indeed an intrguing florilegium of complex autobiographical accounts that not only reflect upon stages of one's intellectual development, but are also valuable records of the cultural, social and ecclesial setting of a particular epoch of general and church history in various corners of the world... The reflections are at once personal, conversational in style, not without gentle humour and a sense of self-effacement, and yet they also reveal the deepest convictions, hard struggles and long-lasting concerns that animate one's scholarly activity. The ultimate questions that we see as underlying these reflections concern the nature of theology and the identity of the theologian. It is highly personal amd yet universally valid answers to these twin-questions that make this book particularly interesting for everyone attracted by, in the editors' words, 'this wonderful discipline'. - Louvain Studies "While maintaining the theological nature of his study, Roger Haight's historical ecclesiology lays a sturdy foundation in a historical, sociological analysis of the beginnings and development of the Christian Church from its origin in Jesus of Nazareth to the eve of the Reformation... This is a groundbreaking volume... Haight has served all ecclesiologists well by initiating a way of looking at ecclesiology as it develops on the ground, so to speak. He has done it with theological integrity and clear analyses. He challenges us all to understand differences as values and the most appropriate way for the incarnation to continue through human history, honoring both the human and the divine whether in the stable or the palace of the council chamber." -Catholic Studies/ http://www.CatholicBooksReview.org/, 2005 Cover Story Feature on Haight -National Catholic Reporter, 2/25/05 "The esteemed Roger Haight excels in addressing where the church and theology currently find themselves. This represents his most extensive work to date in ecclesiology and is a monumental