The Routledge companion to the Christian church

Ecclesiology: the nature, story and study of the Church / Gerard Mannion and Lewis S. Mudge In search of the early "Church": the New Testament and the development of Christian communities / Paula Gooder The Church in the early Christian centuries: ecclesiological consolidation / G.R. Evans The Church in medieval theology / James R. Ginther Ecclesiology and the religious controversy of the sixteenth century / Christopher Ocker The Church in the Tridentine and Early Modern eras / Alison Forrestal The Church in modern theology / Nicholas M. Healy Postmodern ecclesiologies / Gerard Mannion

Ecclesiology in the Orthodox tradition / Kondothra M. George Lutheran ecclesiology / Risto Saarinen Reformed ecclesiology / Eddy van Der Borght Anglican ecclesiology / Paul Avis Non-conformist ecclesiologies / Michael H. Montgomery Roman Catholic ecclesiology / Richard Lennan Ecclesiologies at the margin / Henk De Roest The Church in Asian perspective / Peter C. Phan Earth, water, fire and wind: elements of African ecclesiologies / Steve De Gruchy and Sophie Chirongoma The Church in a Latin-American perspective / David Tombs The Church in a North-American perspective / Gregory Baum The Church in an Oceanic perspective / David Pascoe The Church from a European perspective / Peter De Mey

Comparative ecclesiology / Roger Haight

Ecclesiology and ecumenism / Thomas F. Best

Liberation ecclesiology / Gerard Mannion

Black ecclesiologies / Anthony G. Reddie

Feminist ecclesiology / Natalie K. Watson

Ecclesiology and religious pluralism / Hans Waldenfels

Authority / Mark Chapman

Laity / Paul Lakeland

Magisterium / Michael A. Fahey

Governance / Adam Hood

Ministry / Eamonn Conway

The Sensus Fidelium / John J. Burkhard

Hermeneutics and ecclesiology / Simone Sinn

Doctrine and ecclesiology / Gemma Simmonds

Ecclesiology and ethics in the Western Church / Lewis S. Mudge

Ecclesiology and world mission / missio Dei / Paul M. Collins

Ecclesiology and the social sciences / Neil Ormerod

Ecclesiology and philosophy / Steven Shakespeare.