Mother Church

Carl Braaten here issues an energetic call for a truly ecumenical church, including a Lutheran rationale forrecovery of the historical episcopacy and papal primacy as servants of the gospel.

Quoting Augustine's dictum that You cannot have God for your father unless you have the church foryour mother, Braaten writes of the church's place in the divine scheme of things and of the variousmodernisms that distort or hide the classical Christian tradition. Tracing his own ecumenical journey, heoutlines an ecclesiology of communion and advances specific proposals for enhancing Christian unity inliturgy, spirituality, and church polity. The confessing movement named after Martin Luther he views interms of its basic intent to reform and renew the church, not to start a new Christianity in a multiplicity of separate denominations.

Vigorous, provocative, well and clearly argued, Braaten's case is a formidable and timely contribution tothe ecumenical debate.

Author: Carl E. Braaten
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.53w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780800630829

About the Author
Braaten, Carl E.: -

Carl E. Braaten is a leading theologian in American Lutheranism. He taught Systematic Theology for a generation at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and together with Rober W. Jenson founded the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology and co-edited the journal Pro Ecclesia.

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