""While maintaining the theological nature of his study, Roger Haight's historical ecclesiology lays a sturdy foundation in a historical, sociological analysis of the beginnings and development of the Christian Church from its origin in Jesus of Nazareth to the eve of the Reformation.each chapter concludes with a social historical analysis and a few illuminating pages that draw out principles for historical theology. It is these analytic pages that set Haight's book apart from other studies.This is a groundbreaking volume." -Catholic Books Review, 2005" --Catholic Books Review ""Haight presupposes a Christian unity in the face of religious pluralism within the historical context of postmodernity."- Susan K. Wood" --Susan K. Wood "Roger Haight's two-volume Christian Community in History is an ambitious, multi-layered work that defines the common divisions in ecclesiological approaches.

In integrating a history of the church with both theological and social scientific analyses, Haight adopts themes that James Gustafson explored decades ago in Treasure in Earthen Vessels, but which have pretty much disappeared from ecclesiology ever since." --Amy Plantinga Pauw ""After gaining much renown for his Christology from below Haight applies his methodology to ecclesiology. In this first of a projected two-volume ecclesiology from below, Haight traces the history of the church from its beginnings into the late Middle Ages, concluding with a positive assessment of conciliarism. Recommended." -Choice, 5/05" -- Choice ""I salute Haight for the extraordinary accomplishment represented in this two-volume work."- Richard P. McBrien, Horizons" -- Horizons ""Haight's comparable efforts to find methods based on a hermeneutics of authors, a hermeneutics of texts, and a hermeneutics of receivers can open up a common ground amidst diverse viewpoints for understanding the church, foster new formulations about the church's identity and mission, and affirm common practices."- Bradford E.

Hinze, Religious Studies Review" -- Religious Studies Review "Review in German in Theologische Literaturzeitung 131 (2006)" -- Theologische Literaturzeitung.