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How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the c...

Fourteen Presbyterian scholars enter into conversations with the confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and examine the major theological themes that make the confessions such foundational commitments of faith. This collection of insightful essays provides readers with a clear understanding of the confessions from different periods of the church's life. These conversations with the confessions found in the PC(USA)'s Book of Confession...

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Joseph D. Small explores the particular characteristics of the Reformed confessional tradition in this volume. Reformed churches and the tradition they embody share a distinctive appreciation of what it means to confess the faith, and a characteristic understanding of the role of confessions in reforming the church.

Prominent Presbyterian pastors and leaders address each of the Great Ends of the Church in sermons that both challenge and uplift readers. For decades the Great Ends of the Church, a historic listing of ways Presbyterians have understood the role of the church, has helped to establish church directions in mission and ministry. The Great Ends of the Church are (1) the proclamation of the gospel for the salvation of humankind, (2) the shelter, n...

This collection of essays by prominent Presbyterian theologians and leaders presents the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and its application for the church and its faithful today. A companion to "Confessing the Faith Today.