The Church Unfinished

"The Church Unfinished traces how the Church came from the "community of unexpected persons" whom Jesus gathered around himself and how the Church was then shaped, over the course of centuries, by human decisions made in the Spirit. This study also develops a historical ecclesiology, linking an understanding of the complex development of the Church in the past with an eschatological openness to the future in which God may be calling the Church to new possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.