Description: What does it mean to be church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty.
Brief description: Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), served as chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and was a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. The founding director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Ecclesiology, he also was cochair of the Ecclesiology Program Group of the American Academy of Religion. His most recent publications include Ecclesiology and Postmodernity: Questions for the Church in Our Time (Liturgical Press, 2007) and The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church (2007, ed. with Lewis Mudge).
Review Quotes: The creative suggestions offered in this book should encourage its readers to enrich their understanding of the interplay between faith and reason.Horizons