Paul Bradbury, Isabelle Hamley and Andy Smith (eds), Being the People of God: Missional Ecclesiology for Uncertain Times BradburyPaulHamleyIsabelleSmithAndy (eds), Being the People of God: Missional Ecclesiology for Uncertain Times (London: SCM Press, 2025); 272 pp.: 9780334066422, £40 (pbk)
Abstract
this world.Perhaps even his woeful dealings with the Donatists (whose beliefs, she insists, were scarcely different from Augustine's Catholic Christians) are to be understood in terms of North African tribalism rather than, say, simply as a conflict about doctrinal orthodoxy and/or authority.The genius who shaped European culture in so many ways now appears as one who was also surprisingly provincial and contextual, and who never fully belonged to specifically Roman self-confident culture.Conybeare writes Augustine the African in a crowded market, still dominated by Peter Brown's seminal 1967 Augustine of Hippo: a biography (revised in 2000), but she does so with panache.This is a book to relish.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Christian Theology and Mission
Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Theology
- Volume
- 129
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 53–54
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN