A companion to Albert Nolan's best-selling Jesus Before Christianity, which offers a classic portrait of Jesus from Scripture, Wes Howard-Brook provides a compelling picture of the earliest followers of Jesus, whose idea of church was not simply a Sunday-morning battery charge but the basis for a complete society grounded in the presence of the Risen Christ. It challenges today's Christian livi…
In this groundbreaking volume, the critical theory of German philosopher Jurgen Habermas is brought intodialogue with the ecclesiology of the Roman Catholic Church in the years after the Second Vatican Council. Paul Lakeland asserts that the Roman Catholic Church has failed to enact the vision presented in the central documents of the Second Vatican Council because the Church lacks a critical t…