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title: "Models of the Church (Image Classics)"
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# Models of the Church (Image Classics)

**Brand:** avery dulles
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Models of the Church (Image Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    The book presents a fair amount of reality regarding each model
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2015*

This book was referenced by Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives (Theology and the Sciences) and I am glad that I purchased the Kindle version and read it. As a lay minister in a Protestant denomination, I wished I had known about this resource when I was attending school. This is because my denomination concentrated only on its own polity when training lay and diaconal ministers. There was not a specific class covering the five models presented in this book. This issue recently came up again as I contemplated ministering in a denomination with congregational polity versus episcopal. I didn't want to spend a lot of time in a class on congregationalism and this resource met my needs as this form of government is covered under Church as Herald.However, the only criticism I have of the book does not diminish its excellency for classroom use. Even though the author does bring out the fact that the original issues which resulted in separated churches are no longer at the forefront, the current issues at the forefront are causing further division within denominations. To be sure there are other communions are inclusive of various expressions of the church, I found the author to be too hopeful of a future unification around any of the models.Otherwise, the book presents a fair amount of reality regarding each model as far as the diversity of use by theologians and the difficulty of harmonizing into a single model. On a positive note, the author empowers his readers to pick and choose based on each models merits. Some of those readers will undoubtedly be future congregational leaders or theologians.

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    What is the best way to understand the Church?
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2022*

Cardinal Dulles' thesis is thought provoking and illuminating. If you're wondering why there is so much division within the Church, this book explains, in a way, the tensions of competing visions of what the Church is suppose to be whether it's merely a society, a mystical body, a sacrament, a proclamation, or a servant.

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    Wrong cover
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2021*

The book itself is great, but it didn’t match the picture shown and wasn’t in the best shape

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