Discipline and Diversity Papers Read at the 2005 Summer Meeting and the 2006 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society

"Ranging in period from early Church to contemporary British and global Christianity, these essays discover both contrasts and continuities in how Christian communities have structured the relationship between those in authority responsible for the pursuit of Christian unity, and those 'on the ground' whose often centrifugal energies are both the source of Christian vitality and of the Church's ability to engage creatively with pastoral reality."--BOOK JACKET.Cooper, Kate is the author of 'Discipline and Diversity Papers Read at the 2005 Summer Meeting and the 2006 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society', published 2007 under ISBN 9780954680930 and ISBN 0954680936.