Download or read book Ruptured Bodies written by Eugene R. Schlesinger and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because it will not describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge; neither dismissing, excusing, or minimizing it. What must the church, be given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesiology of the divided church despite that idea's seeming impossibility, because such an ecclesiology is precisely what we need"--