Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century

This book engages ecclesiology across the 20th century as worked out in ecumenical and global contexts and explores how the four marks of the church--one, holy, catholic, and apostolic--were remade, contested, and reaffirmed in surprising and innovative ways.

Myles Werntz (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of theology and director of the Baptist Studies Center at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He is the author and editor of eight other books in Christian theology and ethics, most recently From Isolation to Community and A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence (coauthored with David C. Cramer).