Confessions of a Heretic: Volume 3: Ecclesiological Considerations

This book is the final part of my Confessions of a Heretic. Though this volumeis based on and presupposes volumes 1 and 2 (v. 1: Philosophical considerations;v. 2: Theological Considerations), volume 3, Ecclesiological Considerations, cantoo stand on its own. Whereas the focus of volume 1 was on 'God the Creator',and that of volume 2 was on 'God the Perfector', here the focus turns to 'God thePerformer', to complete the trinitarian vision of what in traditional terminologyis God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit respectively. YetAugustine has been behind the project all along, and here simply more explicitlyso, whereby the entire work can be seen as a radical attempt to apply Augustine'smajor doctrines, particularly as seen in his The City of God, to the Church todaywithin a postmodern context. In volume three, the concept of the Church comesto the fore, with the argument being that what makes the Church the Church,is not the Church as a moral community, a political community, or a socialcommunity, but only the Church as a religio-theological community. As such,the Church then is too, necessarily, an authoritative community, and in this light,an argument is made for the primacy of the Roman Catholic Tradition. Thus,the volume strives to approach ecclesiology anew based on anthropological andsociological analysis, which forms the basis then of ethics, which finally leadsback necessarily to The Church as part of 'God's' Divine Symphony.

Pages: 702, Paperback, Archway Publishing