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Author | : Jukka A. Kaariainen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1610978331 |
Utilizing resources from Martin Luther and the Lutheran tradition, this study offers an understanding of the gospel as promise as key to addressing the challenge of relating the missio Dei to a generous, constructive approach toward the religious other. In its construction of a Lutheran missiology, it retrieves and reappropriates four resources from the Lutheran tradition: the gospel as promise, the law/gospel distinction, a theology of grace as promise of mercy fulfilled, and a theology of the cross utilizing the hiddenness of God. The law of God as accusing yet webbing humanity to its Creator; the gospel as the comforting promise of mercy; and the hiddenness of God as mystifying form the overarching framework within which the Lutheran missiology presented here seeks to engage the religious other by dialectically relating gospel proclamation and dialogue. Such a view of "mission shaped by promise" offers the paradox of God being both revealed and hidden in the cross as a distinctive contribution to an interreligious dialogue centered on the ambiguity and hiddenness of God.
Author | : Graham Cray |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-08-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0715143638 |
An overview of recent developments in church planting. This detailed, practical and well-researched book describes the varied and exciting 'fresh expressions' of church being created. This edition includes a new foreward by the Rt Revd Graham Cray.
Author | : Steven Croft |
Publisher | : Church Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1596272236 |
Mission-Shaped Church launched a movement. Mission-Shaped Questions addresses the big theological and practical queries that movement unleashed, including: What exactly is church? Can we develop churches that can transform culture? Can we be missionshaped and kingdom-focused, too?
Author | : Regina M. Schwartz |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2021-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 026820151X |
Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of “sacramental poetics” advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating how enduring and widespread this poetics is. Toward a Sacramental Poetics addresses two urgent questions we have inherited from a half century of secular critical thought. First, how do we understand the relationship between word and thing, sign and signified, other than as some naive direct representation or as a completely arbitrary language game? And, second, how can the subject experience the world beyond instrumentalizing it? The contributors conclude that a sacramental poetics responds to both questions, offering an understanding of the sign that, by pointing beyond itself, suggests wonder. The contributors explore a variety of topics in relation to sacramental poetics, including political theology, miracles, modernity, translation and transformation, and the metaphysics of love. They draw from diverse resources, from Dante to Hopkins, from Richard Hooker to Stoker's Dracula, from the King James Bible to Wallace Stevens. Toward a Sacramental Poetics is an important contribution to studies of religion and literature, the sacred and the secular, literary theory, and theologies of aesthetics. Contributors: Regina M. Schwartz, Patrick J. McGrath, Rowan Williams, Subha Mukherji, Stephen Little, Kevin Hart, John Milbank, Hent de Vries, Jean-Luc Marion, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Lori Branch, and Paul Mariani.
Author | : Robert S. Heaney |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334058465 |
By looking at the Church through the lens of the biblical theme of promise, this book seeks to offer neither lament for a tattered tradition nor facile hope for an expanding one. It considers the key phases of Anglican history, each defined by clear intentions, from securing English national life, to mission, to finding contextual roots in various locales.
Author | : Christopher J.H. Wright |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830864962 |
Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that mission is bigger than that--there is in fact a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission. He provides a missional hermeneutic in response to this claim.
Author | : Margaret Withers |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-12-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0715146629 |
During the 20th Century, Sunday school attendance fell from 55% to only 4% of children. Mission-shaped Children will show you how to turn this statistic around. The book outlines the many obstacles that are currently preventing growth in children’s work in the Church, and suggests practical and effective strategies for overcoming these.
Author | : Michael W. Goheen |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830895434 |
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.
Author | : Walls, Andrew F. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608337235 |
Author | : Michael Pocock |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080102661X |
Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.