What is the Church? Exploring Christian Community

Harvard HDS

Ecclesiology is the branch of theology concerned with comparative, critical, and constructive reflection on the identity and purpose of the Church, in its local, universal, and cosmic/mystical forms. Both philosophical and practical, traditional and innovative, institutional and radical, ecclesiology is perhaps the most integrative and creative of the theological disciplines, uniting systematic, biblical, and liturgical theology with questions of authority and mission. This course aims to…