The Public Church

by Martin E. Marty

Book Overview

This is the first book to discern and spell out the fascinating coalescence of churches in America today. Drawing on mainline Protestantism, the newer evangelicalism, and Roman Catholicism, this new community, or ""community of communities,"" may be called a ""public church"" because it is particularly sensitive to the public order and to the interplay of its members as citizens and church people. In a world of increasing interreligious tensions and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620325217
• ISBN13: 9781620325216
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"