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The Church as Moral Community: Ecclesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate

By Lewis S. Mudge

Continuum. 1998. 176 pp. $19.95
ISBN 0-8264-1048-0

Reviewed by Clifton Kirkpatrick

 

Lewis Mudge, professor of systematic theology at San Francisco Seminary, is one of the greatest gifts the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) shares with the ecumenical movement. His vision and insights, matched by his gracious and generous spirit, have decisively shaped all of the major ecumenical movements in which our church has been engaged for more than a generation.

In his latest book, The Church as Moral Community, Mudge shares the fruits of recent ecumenical dialogue and offers a fresh vision for the renewal of the church as spiritual-moral communities and of the ecumenical movement as their home.

In The Church as Moral Community, Mudge rightly points out that we are at the end of an era which began with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. That agreement, which ended the wars of...

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