Ecclesiology and Mission

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This topic was discussed at the Lausanne-Orthodox 2014 Consultation on Wednesday 17 September and the main speakers were:

Fr. Dr. Prof. Ioan Sauca

Dr. Mel Robeck

The following background reading may be useful.

On the way to Christian Unity  by  Fr. Dr. Prof. Ioan Sauca  published in Grace and Abundance : Orthodox Reflections on the way to Porto Alegre  WCC, 2005

Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality or Illusion?  Edited by John G. Stackhouse, Baker Academic books 2003

A Perichoretic Model of the Church: The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Dimitru Staniloae  by Danut Manastireanu   Lambert Academic Publishing 2012

Orthodox Ecclesiology: The Temple of the Spirit by Paul Negrut, published in Perichoresis 3/2 (2005), pp.149-65

The doctrine of the Church and the ecumenical problem  by  Georges Florovsky  published in the Ecumenical Review 2 (1950)

After our likeness: The Church as the image of the Trinity  by  Miroslav Volf, Eerdmans 1998

The Boundaries of Evangelical Ecclesiology  by John S. Hammett

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