Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of

Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All

"The first thing to say in our exploration of priesthood is this: priesthood is a fundamental and inescapable part of being human. All human beings, knowingly or not, minister as priests to one another. All of us, knowingly or not, receive priestly ministrations from one another. Unless we begin here, we are not likely to understand the confusions and uncertainties and opportunities we have been encountering in the life of the church itself in recent years. We shall be in danger, in fact, of creating makeshift solutions to half-understood problems, easy answers to misleading questions, temporary bandages for institutions that need to be healed from the ground up." - L. William Countryman There is a lot of tension in churches today about whose ministry is primary-that of the laity or of the clergy. L. William Countryman argues that we can only resolve that problem by seeing that we are all priests simply by virtue of being human and living, as we all do, on the mysterious and uncertain border with the Holy. Living on the Border of the Holy offers a way of understanding the priesthood of the whole people of God and the priesthood of the ordained in complementary ways by showing how both are rooted in the fundamental priestly nature of human life. After an exploration of the ministry of both laity and ordained, Countryman concludes by examining the implications of this view of priesthood for churches and for educating those studying for ordination.
Country USA
Brand Morehouse Publishing
Manufacturer Morehouse Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0819217735
ReleaseDate 1999-01-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780819217738

Country	USA
Brand	Morehouse Publishing
Manufacturer	Morehouse Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0819217735
ReleaseDate	1999-01-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780819217738

Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All

You might also like...