Baptist faith and ecclesiology. Introduction -- Developments affecting the emergence of the baptist pattern of congregational polity and associational autonomy ; "Giant With His Hands Tied Behind His Back" ; Individual salvation and a "spiritual" church ; An alternative baptist conception of the church ; Towards a more adequate baptist ecclesiology ; Reflections on the current debate within the Southern Baptist Convention -- Fides quaerens intellectum : Karl Barth's Anselmian methodology. Anselm and Fides quaerens intellectum ; Positive critiques of the Anselmian method / David Mueller ; Positive critiques of the Anselmian method / T.F. Torrance ; Positive critiques of the Anselmian method / George Hunsinger ; Negative critiques of the Anselmian turn ; The principle of Analogia fidei ; Interpretations of Barth's view of history ; Surveying the church dogmatics: interpreting with two methods in view ; Discursus on praxis -- Fides quaerens rationem reddere : the radical Barth's nascent praxis methodology. The Marquardt thesis ; Critical responses to the Marquardt thesis / Helmut Gollwitzer ; Critical responses to the Marquardt thesis / George Hunsinger ; The Safenwil years : Genesis of Fides quaerens rationem reddere ; Safenwil insights in process ; Fides quaerens rationem reddere in the later works ; Safenwil and Anselm : assessing the methodologies together -- Barth's doctrine of the church. Definition and method in Barth's ecclesiology ; Church as the earthly-historical form of the existence of Jesus Christ ; Solidarity in worship and eucharist ; Preservation of witness in the German church conflict ; Solidarity in deed and word ; Faith seeking knowledge ; History, proclamation, and witness ; New meaning for Christian political responsibility ; Christian social action and cosmic reconciliation -- Uniting church and world : Barth's doctrine of the church and its indications for a praxiological approach to the church and theology. Beginning with the doctrine of revelation ; Critiques of Barth's doctrine of revelation as approach for theology ; Beginning with the doctrine of the church ; Importance of social location for beginning with ecclesiology ; Conclusion. Subject Headings Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. Published in: Atlanta, Ga Physical description: 171 pages ; 23 cm.

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