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Apostolicity Then and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World

Apostolicity Then and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World 236 Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 6 (2010) 213–257 John J. Burkhard, Apostolicity Th en and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 2004) xiv + 250 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8146-5121-6 (pbk). Th is is a timely book as ecclesiology has moved to the centre stage of ecumeni- cal dialogue and the churches are asked to respond to texts such as Th e Nature and Mission of the Church (Faith and Order Commission Paper 198) and the statement Called to be the One Church from the WCC Assembly at Porto Alegre (2006). Fr Burkhard is undoubtedly right to feel that ‘growth in a com- mon ecclesiology could lead to agreement on the divisive issue of offi cial min- istry in the churches.’ He remarks on the lack of progress on these issues despite remarkable ecumenical agreement in the last part of the twentieth century and wonders whether postmodernity in its various forms might be a resource both for understanding ‘the divisive issue of apostolic succession’ and for ‘proposing the faith to our contemporaries’. ‘Apostolicity’ and ‘postmodernity’ might appear at fi rst glance to belong to quite diff erent registers of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecclesiology Brill

Apostolicity Then and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World

Hind, John
Ecclesiology , Volume 6 (2): 236 – Jan 1, 2010
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236 Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 6 (2010) 213–257 John J. Burkhard, Apostolicity Th en and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 2004) xiv + 250 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8146-5121-6 (pbk). Th is is a timely book as ecclesiology has moved to the centre stage of ecumeni- cal dialogue and the churches are asked to respond to texts such as Th e Nature and Mission of the Church (Faith and Order Commission Paper 198) and the statement Called to be the One Church from the WCC Assembly at Porto Alegre (2006). Fr Burkhard is undoubtedly right to feel that ‘growth in a com- mon ecclesiology could lead to agreement on the divisive issue of offi cial min- istry in the churches.’ He remarks on the lack of progress on these issues despite remarkable ecumenical agreement in the last part of the twentieth century and wonders whether postmodernity in its various forms might be a resource both for understanding ‘the divisive issue of apostolic succession’ and for ‘proposing the faith to our contemporaries’. ‘Apostolicity’ and ‘postmodernity’ might appear at fi rst glance to belong to quite diff erent registers of

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