Includes bibliographical references.

Reflections on the reception of the Church Fathers in the contemporary context / Marcus Plested -- Justification: ninety-four theses / George Hunsinger -- Theology unbound: the fading away of a classical discipline / Arie L. Molendijk -- Understanding religious disagreements / Olli-Pekka Vainio -- Knowing our place(s): the ecclesial role(s) of the theologian / Paul Lakeland -- Earthen vessels: theological reflections on North American denominationalism / Amy Plantinga Pauw -- Karl Rahner's ecumenism and its challenge for today / David H. Jensen -- Knowing our limits and laughing with joy: theology in service to the church invisible / Cynthia L. Rigby -- Sexual ethics and the scandal of the cross / David Tombs -- Public theology and the public role of churches in South Africa today: insights from the confession of the threefold offices of Christ / Nico Koopman -- Members of one another: building a restorative church / Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger -- A post-secular theology of compassion: the moral-spiritual and psychological underpinnings of "good care" / Hetty Zock -- A call to confession, or what Protestant Christians may learn from Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians / Allan Hugh Cole Jr.

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As a global religion with growing numbers of expressions, Christianity calls for deepening relationships across traditions while also formulating collaborative visions. A thriving church will require Christians from various traditions and on varying trajectories to become familiar with one another, appreciate one another, and work in common service to God in Jesus Christ. In this book, a group of thirteen distinguished scholars from around the world and representing a range of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives demonstrate how theological reflection and broad-based ecumenical conve.