Ecclesiology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium - Paperback

by Kevin Wagner (Editor), M. Isabell Naumann (Editor), Peter John McGregor (Editor)

Born from the side of Jesus, pierced on the cross, the church is the living body of Christ. Like Jesus himself, it is both eternal and temporal, spiritual and material, spotless and wounded. Constituted as an integrated, living body, the church is the sacrament of Christ; that is, it reveals Christ to the world and makes him present in the world. It exists in order to evangelize and does this most effectively when its diverse members are united in love. This collection of chapters from scholars from diverse fields offers a fresh approach to Catholic ecclesiology. It is hoped that the reader of this book will discover anew the beauty of the church, a living body always old and ever new.

Author Biography

Kevin Wagner is a lecturer in theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, specializing in patristics. He is co-author of Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt (2019).

M. Isabell Naumann is a member of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. She is the President of the Catholic Institute of Sydney. She is a member of the Pontifical International Academy and the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Peter John McGregor is a lecturer in theology at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, and the author of Heart to Heart: The Spiritual Christology of Joseph Ratzinger (2016).