New Book on the Church

Rollin G. Grams, The Family of Faith: Studies on the Church and Its Communal Values (184 pages)

This collection of twenty-six essays on the Church is intended for the average reader.  A few of the articles delve into primary sources and become a bit more technical, yet these are also not overly academic and are written with the purpose of applying a Biblical theology and ethic of the Church to our lives as God's people today.  The book is currently offered for free on this blog's bookshop.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:                   A Confessional Church of the Triune God

Chapter 2:                   Church Types

Chapter 3:                   First Century Household, First Century Church

Chapter 4:                   Family Roles in the Household

Chapter 5:                   Some Negative Aspects of the Household and Challenges for the Church

Chapter 6:                   The Church as Family and the Practice of Ministry

Chapter 7:                   Afflictions of the 'Body': The Early Church’s Opponents and

Its Prescriptions against Heresy

Chapter 8:                   The Church and Moral Mission in Mt. 5.13-16

Chapter 9:                   Kingdom Movements and the Church

Chapter 10:                 The Great Commission in Matthew, Luke-Acts, and John

Chapter 11:                 The Narrative of Christ and Moral Virtues

Chapter 12:                 Unity and Peace in Ephesians

Chapter 13:                 The Unity of John 17

Chapter 14:                 Christian Unity

Chapter 15:                 Dare We Judge?

Chapter 16:                 The Church is Not a Zoo: Unity, Not Diversity, is the Church’s Communal

Value

Chapter 17:                 Is Diversity a Christian Virtue?

Chapter 18:                 Jesus and the Religion of Israel in His Day

Chapter 19:                 When Wolves Come Among You: Paul’s Speech to the Ephesian Elders

Chapter 20:                 A Community of Faith, Love, and Hope

Chapter 21:                 Pride and Humility

Chapter 22:                 Friendship, Community, and Brotherhood

Chapter 23:                 When ‘Preaching’ is No Longer ‘Christian’: A Study of Paul’s Opposition

to Oratory in His Day—and Ours

Chapter 24:                 The Theological Unity of the Church and Its Separation from Darkness

Chapter 25:                 Wine, Food, and Work in the Church Community

Chapter 26:                 Our Bodies as Living Sacrifices, Holy and Acceptable to God: The People

of God and the Relationship between Theology and Ethics in Romans


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