We are thrilled to announce that Roger Haight's critically acclaimed Christian Community in History Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are now available in paperback in the UK and will soon publish in the US this August. This trilogy on theology and the history of the Church is called a “crowning achievement” and a "major contribution to the study of the Church" by Paul Avis (The Council for Christian Unity of the Church of England.
In the first volume, Roger Haight achieves what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below, which is concrete, realist, and historically conscious. Haight charts the history of the church's self-understandings from the origins of the church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle Ages.To learn more about Christian Community in History Volume 1: Historical Ecclesiology, visit our website here.
In Volume 2, Haight develops a comparative ecclesiology based on the history and diverse theologies of the worldwide Christian movement from the Reformation to the present. A reviewer in the Anglican Theological Review says this second volume is "worthy of celebration." To learn more about Christian Community in History Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology and other titles, visit our website here.
Volume 3 is an attempt to describe what the churches possess in common, or to retrieve ecclesiological constants from history reaching back to scriptural origins in order to construct and portray the common ecclesial existence shared by the churches. John J. Burkhard (New Theology Review) says, “The trilogy will long be the standard reference work in the field.” To learn more about Christian Community in History Volume 3: Ecclesial Existence and other titles, visit our website here.
Roger Haight, SJ, has a PhD from the University of Chicago (1973) and a STL from the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago (1981). He has taught for over 30 years in Jesuit schools of theology in Chicago, Toronto, the Philippines, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a visiting professor in France, India, Peru, and Kenya. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1994/95). Jesus Symbol of God won 1st place in the Catholic Press Association's 2000 Book Award for theology. Dynamics of Theology won 2nd place in CPA's 1991 Book Award for Theology. He currently teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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