id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ws859c70g0v Steven John Battin Intercommunal Ecclesiology: Re-Envisioning the Church as God's Response to Intergroup Disunity 2013 .txt text/plain 385 14 34 Within God's plan of historical salvation, the Church functions as God's communal response to intercomunal disunity, a role it fulfills with integrity only when and where it enacts itself as a counterperformance to aggression, conflict, and indifference between human communities. Chapter 6 examines Jesus as the initiator of the group that would eventually be called the Church, and draws attention to how the resurrected Christ's association with ecclesial community points toward the broadening of Jesus' ministry to include the realm of intergroup relations. cache/ws859c70g0v.txt txt/ws859c70g0v.txt