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From the chapter on the ontology of the church, Chan moves to worship, the shape of liturgy, the catechumenate, and, yes, even mission. Everything he says after chapter one grows out of his ontology. Evangelicals will certainly disagree with some of it, since it sounds increasingly Anglican. But they would do well to dig into the ground out of which his liturgical theology grows. For it is in this ground more than anywhere that evangelical theology has been barren.

Mark Galli is managing editor of Christianity Today and author of Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God (Baker).

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Also posted today is an extended interview with Simon Chan.

InterVarsity Press has book information on and excerpts from Liturgical Theology and Spiritual Theology.

Simon Chan's books, Liturgical Theology, Spiritual Theology, and Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition, are available through Christianbook.com and other retailers.

Other books mentioned in this article include:

Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality or Illusion ? by John Stackhouse

The Community of the Word:Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology by John Stackhouse

Christ and Culture by Richard Niebuhr

Revolution by George Barna

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch

The Journal of Pentecostal Theology has an abstract of Chan's article, "The Church and the Development of Doctrine."

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November 2006, Vol. 50, No. 11