For For readers asking what the Church is for and how to belong to it, Orthodox or not; talks, not academic ecclesiology.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Talks and interviews on the Church as the body of Christ: its origins, mission, present state and the vocation of believers.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural3 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological4 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A collection of talks and interviews on the Church, none previously published in book form, issued by Darton, Longman and Todd in 2008 (253 pages; Wikipedia dates it 2007). Starting from the image of the Church as the body of Christ, the pieces take up the origins of the early Church, its mission and historical legacy, the condition of the Church today, and the vocation of the Church and of each believer within it.
