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The church's public role: retrospect and prospect

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This timely, broad -ranging book explores what mainstream churches of North America have been doing - and what they ought to do - to bring about social transformation. Written by an ecumenical group of esteemed church historians and ethicists, the book looks both backward and forward in presenting a valuable overview of the church's mission in society. A fruitful cross-disciplinary collection of essays by Christian ethicists and church historians, this book casts much light on the backgrounds and contemporary expressions of a number of alternative positions on what the public role of major churches and ecumenical agencies has been, is and should be..

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259 HES c

Z. HANDIMAN

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Call Number

261.109 HES c

Publisher

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publ.., 2002

Collation

xiii,309p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1-57910-873-3

Classification

261.109

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Subject(s)

CHURCH AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS - CONGRESSES

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