The Contestable Church: Dissent, Democracy, and Baptist Ecclesiology

Baptists have a well-earned reputation as a contentious people. Lacking a centralized authority to settle disputes, and...
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Author: Christopher L. Schelin
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Language: English
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The Contestable Church: Dissent, Democracy, and Baptist Ecclesiology by Schelin, Christopher L.

The Contestable Church: Dissent, Democracy, and Baptist Ecclesiology

$79.28

The Contestable Church: Dissent, Democracy, and Baptist Ecclesiology

$79.28
Author: Christopher L. Schelin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Baptists have a well-earned reputation as a contentious people. Lacking a centralized authority to settle disputes, and defending the conscience of each believer, they have excelled at conflict and division. But perhaps the resolution of this scandal is not for Baptists to stop fighting, but to learn to fight better. Christopher L. Schelin reconsiders Baptist ecclesiology from the perspective that conflict is not merely inevitable but is essentially constructive for the church's discernment of the mind of Christ. Enlisting the support of radical democratic political theory, as exemplified in the work of Romand Coles, the author argues that it is precisely through hospitable encounters with difference and disagreement that new possibilities emerge. Schelin invites Baptists not to shy away from conflict, employing convergences with radical democracy to reimagine key doctrinal themes such as soul competency, the priesthood of believers, and pastoral authority.

Author: Christopher L. Schelin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 05/01/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780881469271

About the Author
Christopher L. Schelin is dean of students at Starr King School for the Ministry in California and a senior research fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in the Netherlands. He holds an MDiv from Duke University and a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests include Baptist history and theology as well as the interactions between religious traditions, political liberalism, and democracy.

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