Friendship: Exploring Its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity

Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding of the church today. Since Jesus' statement in St. John's gospel "You are my friends" the concept of friendship has had a huge influence on the Christian understanding of community. But is the historical understanding of friendship enough to serve the needs of the church in a postmodern age? Steve Summers investigates the limits of this concept, as well as its possible use in contemporary ecclesiology.