Essentials of Christian Community: Essays for Daniel W. Hardy

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Essentials of Christian Community: Essays for Daniel W Hardy. Edited by David F. Ford and Dennis L. Stamps. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996. 380 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Essentials of Christian Community is not an easy book to review for the simple reason that it tries to accomplish a number of things under one cover. On one level, it is indeed a collection of essays that, as the title suggests seeks to highlight the essentials of Christian community. On another, it presents to the general public the life and thought of a theologian who has made an enormous contribution to the life of the churches in England and America but who has made this contribution as much through his "behind the …