Missional God, Missional Church – Hope for Re–evangelizing the West
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3955-1 (ISBN)
"As the Father has sent me, I am sending you" (John 20:21).
With the reality of broad-scale secularization in the West and the attendant cloud of insignificance hanging over the church, is there any hope for the re-evangelization of the West?
In this comprehensive theology of mission, Ross Hastings directs the fretful gaze of the church to the trinitarian commission of John 20. There we find Jesus granting peace to his disciples by breathing his Spirit on them. He formed them into his community of shalom. Leaving their locked room, these "sent ones" went out to participate in God's own ongoing mission to the world.
Hastings also tackles the dual challenges of isolation from and accommodation to the surrounding culture. Building on the works of David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin, Christopher Wright and Darrell Guder, the author corrects numerous dichotomies that hinder the church. In the power of the Spirit the gathered church is spiritually transformed and also scattered as it proclaims God's forgiveness and freedom.
This comprehensive theology of mission opens possibilities for renewal of faithful effort as we join in Christ's mission to the world.
Ross Hastings (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College, Vancouver. He has also served as a pastor, most recently at Peace Portal Alliance Church in British Columbia.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Greatest Commission
Outlines of John 20:19-23 and of This Book
Matters of Interpretation
Defiant Optimism
The State of the Western Church
2. Breaking Free Through Discerning Inculturation
Inculturation Without Enculturation
Cultural Disconnection of Western Churches and Breaking Free
3. Breaking Free of the Entrapment of Indiscriminate Enculturation
Indiscriminate Enculturation of the Western Churches
Despair Leading to Isolation
Despair Within Even the Radical Emergent
The Despair Undergirding Radical Orthodoxy
Hope in the Christocentric, Trinitarian Church
4. Greatest Co-Mission: The Missional Trinity
What Does It Mean to Be Trinitarian?
The Trinity and the Power of Relationality
The Trinity and the Dignity of Personhood
The Trinity and Coinherence
The Immanent and the Economic Trinities (Two Trinities or One?)
The Trinity and Creation
The Trinity and Election
The Trinity and the Church: Unity with Diversity
PART ONE : DISCOVERING SHALOM
5. Communities of Christ's Risen Presence
Church as Christocentric Community
Church as Celebratory Community
Church as a Community of Shalom
Church as a Missional, Open Community: A Community of Hospitality
Church as Essential Community
Church as the One Catholic Community
Church as Community That Is Both Lively and Old
Church as a Missional Community
Church as a Catechetical Community
6. Mission of Incarnation and Resurrection
The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Reaffirms
God's Creation and Confirms the Church's Mission as a Creational Mission
The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Affirms That Christian Mission Is a New Creational Mission
7. Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Beautiful Scars
Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Joy Generated by Beautiful Scars
Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Through Christocentric, Cruciform Worship,Teaching and Community Life
8. Mission About the Cross, Mission Under the Cross: His Completed Redemption
Mission About the Cross
Mission Under the Cross
PART TWO: DISSEMINATING SHALOM
9. Communities of the Triune Missional God: Mission the Mother of Theology, Theology the Mother of Mission
Biblical Evidence of God as Missional
Theological Considerations of God as Missional
The Nature of the Missional Church
10. Mission as Theosis
Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit
Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit
Implications of Incarnational and Pneumatic Theosis for the Church's Mission
11. Communities of the Spirit: Gathered and Scattered
The Spirit in the Missional Church Gathered
The Spirit in Missional Church Moral Formation
The Spirit in the Missional Church Scattered
12. Communities of Forgiveness: Mission of Absolution and Freedom
Remission at the Heart of the Gospel
Remission Expressed in Participation with Christ by the Spirit
Remission as an Initial and Permanent Saving Act and as an Ongoing Relational Practice
Remission and Reconciliation as a Sign of the Kingdom
Bibliography
Name and Subject Index
Scripture Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Illinois |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 498 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8308-3955-0 / 0830839550 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8308-3955-1 / 9780830839551 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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