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Book SynopsisT.F. Torrance''s Conflict and Agreement in the Church gathers together his most influential essays and articles on topics relating to ecumenism. Himself involved heavily in the ecumenical movement, he wrote that ''ours must be the task of learning together again how to confess, like the early Church, faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and God in all its breadth and length and height and depth, and therefore in the overflowing love of God.'' Out of this conviction grew a comprehensive doctrine of the Church ''in which our differences are lost sight of because they are destroyed from behind by a masterful faith in the Saviour of men.''In this first volume, Torrance presents a set of essays engaging theologically with different denominations, along with responses to particular problems facing the ecumenical project. In particular, writing after the third world conference on faith and order, he addresses the hopes and barriers it raised to closer ecumenical relations. Throughout, Torrance''s
Trade Review'The book is one that demands the closest attention from any theologian who interests himself in the field of Faith and Order, and since this field now coincides with the major doctrines of the faith, it is not too much to say that no one who is interested in the proper formulation of these doctrines in our time can afford to neglect it. For the non-specialist. . . the theology becomes lucid if one is prepared to give oneself to it with the attention and concentration it demands and deserves, and then it becomes plain that something of the highest importance is being said.' - William Nicholls, in Theology
Table of ContentsPreface 7 Introduction 11 Part 1 Discussions with Churches 1 With Anglicans (a) The Apostles And The Ministry of The Church 23 (b) The Apostolic Ministry 34 (c) Catholicity 48 (d) The Fulness of Christ 57 (e) Problems of Reunion 69 2 With Presbyterians (a) What is The Reformed Church? 76 (b) Our Witness Through Doctrine 89 3 Presbyterian - Anglican Relations (a) What is The Church? 104 (b) Intercommunion and the Union of the Church 122 (c) A New Approach 134 4 With Romans (a) The Problem of Discussion With Rome 146 (b) The New Mariological Dogma 156 (c) Romans and Reform 163 Part 2 Problems of Faith and Order 1 Amsterdam - The Nature and Mission of the Church 195 2. Lund 226 Where do we go from Lund? 3 The Atonement and the Oneness of the Church 238 4 Towards Evanston 263 Our Oneness in Christ and our Disunity as Churches 5 The Hope of Israel 284 Israel and the Incarnation 6 Christ the Hope of the World 304 Christ the First and the Last Index of Biblical References 317 Names Subjects
