Sunday, November 23, 2003
Mother Church
I just (finally) finished reading Carl Braaten's Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism. I had read most of it, but only skimmed some of the last third before getting distracted by life and temporarily putting it down. If you are at all interested in ecclesiology and ecumenism, the tragic aspect of the Reformation and the dangers of Protestantism, the current state of the church and of theology, or just a learned Lutheran perspective on these things, you must read this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I have every intention of rereading it, but first, I have two more Braaten titles on the way (one co-authored and one co-edited by Jenson) - and if they're half as rich as this one, I will be as happy as a clam.
For now, though, I'm back to Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James and, intermittently, to The Churching of America, 1776-1990 by Roger Finke & Rodney Stark.
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