For those of you planning on attending the 2006 Emergent Theological Conversation with Miroslav Volf, you'll be interested to know that Volf's excellent book, After Our Likeness: The Church As the Image of the Trinity, deals extensively with the ecclesiology of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Volf's other dialogue partner is John Zizoulas, an Orthodox scholar.
Being an excellent defense of a "free church" ecclesiology in the face of these two very different ecclesiologies, Volf's book should be an excellent guide for many emerging churches.
By the way, here is a nice profile of Volf.
he wasn't actually that fair or accurate in dealing w/ zizoulas. alas.
Posted by: sky | April 21, 2005 at 10:24 AM
The introduction of this book alone is worth the purchase. I refer to it again and again in conversation about ecclesiology.
Posted by: Mike King | April 21, 2005 at 03:01 PM
Sky, what happened with Zizoulas?
Posted by: Whitewave | May 10, 2005 at 01:34 AM