In this volume Donald Bloesch explores with charity and balance the contours of eccesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues raging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship, to the church's place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of God, and the issue of church reunion. Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breacth and biblical in …
"~Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year! The doctrine of God is receiving renewed and vigorous attention among theologians. Even a cursory examination of recent scholarship reveals what leading evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch describes as ""a mounting controversy over the concept of God."" God is variously portrayed as vulnerable (J?rgen Moltmann, Clark Pinnock), as lov…
In the Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory, Donald Bloesch takes up difficult and sometimes controversial themes such as the coming of the kingdom of God, the return of Jesus Christ, the life hereafter, the millennial hope, the final judgment, hell, heaven, purgatory, and paradise. Wrestling with biblical texts that often take metaphorical form, Bloesch avoids rationalistic reductionism …