Introducing Christian Mission Today – Scripture, History and Issues

Michael W. Goheen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2014
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4047-2 (ISBN)

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Michael Goheen gives us a full-scale introduction to mission studies today in its biblical, theological and historical dimensions. Goheen covers the full horizon of major issues in mission, including its global, urban and holistic contexts. This text shows how the missional church encounters the pluralism of Western culture and global religions.

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Mission--a driving force in the long Christian story--today is often cast as the embarrassing relative of tall-steeple religiosity.
In our wider culture it's now tucked in the endnotes of book-club histories or forms the ghostlike ellipses in the six o'clock news. But in Introducing Christian Mission Today, Michael Goheen brings the vibrant history, motivation and challenges of Christian mission to the fore.
Through the centuries Christian mission has always been recalibrating, retooling and reevangelizing. It has repeatedly taken surprising turns as it is carried along by the Spirit of God. Goheen's introduction to mission's biblical, theological and historical dimensions engages the present and anticipates the future. As he unfolds the major issues of the global and urban, the pluralistic and wholistic contexts of mission today, he lays the ground for engaging in God's great kingdom enterprise.
This full-scale text incorporates the keen missional insights of Lesslie Newbigin, David Bosch and other formative thinkers. It will be a valued resource not only for those in crosscultural contexts but also for those engaged in reevangelizing the West.

Michael W. Goheen (PhD, University of Utrecht) is theological director and scholar-in-residence in missional theology at the Missional Training Center in Phoenix. He is also professor of missional theology at Newbigin House of Studies and Jake and Betsy Tuls Professor of Missiology at Calvin Theological Seminary. His published works include A Light to the Nations and The Drama of Scripture (coauthored with Craig Bartholomew).

Preface

Introduction: A Paradigm Shift in Mission Studies Today

PART I: BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON MISSION

1. Scripture as a Narrative Record of God?s Mission

2. Theology of Mission and Missional Theology

PART II: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY REFLECTION ON MISSION

3. Historical Paradigms of Mission

4. An Emerging Ecumenical Paradigm of Mission

5. A Survey of the Global Church

PART III: CURRENT ISSUES IN MISSION TODAY

6. Holistic Mission: Witness in Life, Word and Deed

7. Faithful Contextualization: Church, Gospel and Culture(s)

8. Toward a Missiology of Western Culture

9. A Missionary Encounter with World Religions

10. Urban Mission: The New Frontier

11. Missions: A Witness to the Gospel Where There Is None

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Verlagsort	IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 235 mm
Gewicht	781 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-4047-8 / 0830840478
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4047-2 / 9780830840472
Zustand	Neuware