TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oden,Thomas C.
TI  - Corrective love: the power of communion discipline 
T2  - Concordia scholarship today
SN  - 0570048036
U1  - 262.8 Oden 
PY  - 1995///]
CY  - St. Louis, Missouri
PB  - CPH, Concordia Publishing House
KW  - Church discipline
KW  - Power of the keys
KW  - Church
KW  - Holiness
KW  - Forgiveness of sin
KW  - Confession
KW  - Absolution
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index; 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
ER  -