{"product_id":"christian-assembly-gordon-w-lathrop-9780800636609","title":"Christian Assembly","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is church? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory, with internal factions, external pressures, and ecumenical turmoil all calling for a more positive, sturdy, more resilient notion of Christian community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWengert approaches the questions as a Reformation historian. He shows how the New Testament notion of ''marks'' of the church was taken up by Martin Luther and developed by Phillip Melanchthon not as a descriptive tag but as a criterion for authenticity in Christian community. Lathrop, a liturgical theologian, shows concretely how those marks can stamp the worship life of a congregation as well as the evaluative work of congregations with their pastors, bishops, superintendents, and conference ministers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume originated as six lectures jointly presented to the Academy of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon W. Lathrop, Timothy J. Wengert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0800636600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800636609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.56w x 0.49d","brand":"Gordon W. Lathrop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988255244543,"sku":"9780800636609","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c421323-d5ee-4b81-8e00-063c9097fe71.jpg?v=1683293497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christian-assembly-gordon-w-lathrop-9780800636609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}