Oden, Thomas C. <br/><br/>
Corrective love :  the power of communion discipline / 
Thomas C. Oden. 
 - 223 pages ;  23 cm. 
 - Concordia scholarship today. .
 - Concordia scholarship today. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prelude : tending the garden -- Introduction : whatever become of the disciplined community? -- pt. 1. The keys to God's dwelling place -- Judgment and discipline in God's house -- Communion discipline -- The narrow way -- pt. 2. The administration of communion discipline -- On rending and mending table fellowship -- Practicing the pastoral office of confessor -- Regrounding tough-love administry -- Lay and clergy discipline : why the distinction persists -- Retrieving the apostolic practice of admonition -- How corrective love works through serving, teaching, and superintending ministries -- pt. 3. Political restraint in eschatological perspective -- The value of ecclesial discipline to the polis -- Corrective love as an implicit political theology -- Conclusion : confession 101 : a summary. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0570048036 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95004150 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church discipline.<br/>Power of the keys.<br/>Church--Holiness.<br/>Forgiveness of sin.<br/>Confession.<br/>Absolution.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>262.8 Oden