Edmund P. Clowney, The Church. IVP Academic, 1995. 336 pages.
How can the church make progress in a confused modern age?
“Only by keeping in step with God’s Word,” answers Edmund Clowney. Within a rich biblical and theological framework, Clowney provides guidance for churches navigating uniquely modern challenges with a clear Evangelical and Reformed account of the doctrine of the church.
Distinctives of his approach include complementarianism, cessationism, Presbyterianism, and an emphasis on evangelism and cultural awareness. Clowney represents excellent historical expressions of such doctrines and attempts biblical defenses of them. You may find, like me, that you have much to learn, even if you aren’t persuaded to change your position.
Born in Philadelphia in 1917, Clowney earned theology degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and Wheaton College. He served as a professor at each of the Westminster Seminary campuses and, from 1966 to 1984, as President of Westminster in Philadelphia. Clowney pastored several churches along the way and went home to be with the Lord in 2005. Thus, published in 1995, The Church represents the consummate career of a preeminent pastor-theologian.
Evangelical Ecclesiology
The book is situated within the sometimes-overlooked series Contours of Christian Theology, which
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