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Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology

Author : Stanley H. Skreslet (II.)
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331180
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology written by Stanley H. Skreslet (II.) and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stanley H. Skreslet offers an inviting new proposal for conceptualizing the field of missiology. Comprehending Mission includes a concise overview of the development of missiology of the last century, introducing its characteristic methodologies, and offering insight into the kids of questions missiologists typically ask. In the last hundred years missiology has moved form emphasizing the practical challenges of foreign mission service to highlighting the intercultural aspects of Christian outreach. Today, missiology is lesss a form of practical theology than a field of study where theological concerns intersect with critical studies undertaken by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars." --

Constructing Mission History

Author : Stanley H. Skreslet
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506481892
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Mission History written by Stanley H. Skreslet and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.

The State of Missiology Today

Author : Charles E. Van Engen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830893490
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The State of Missiology Today by : Charles E. Van Engen

Download or read book The State of Missiology Today written by Charles E. Van Engen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 Missiology Lectures at Fuller Theological Seminary marked the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Intercultural Studies. The papers from that conference explore the developments and transformations in the study and practice of mission, as contributors chart the current shape of mission studies and its prospects in the twenty-first century.

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Author : Martha Frederiks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399593
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission by : Martha Frederiks

Download or read book Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission written by Martha Frederiks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

Transcending Mission

Author : Michael W Stroope
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 1783595531
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Transcending Mission written by Michael W Stroope and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the language of mission is in disarray. Where do the language and idea of 'mission' come from? Do they truly have precedence in the early centuries of the church? Michael Stroope investigates these questions and shows how the language of mission is a modern phenomenon that shaped a 'grand narrative' of mission. He then offers a way forward. Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction: the enigma of mission Part 1: Justifying mission 1. Partisans and apologists 2. Reading Scripture as mission 3. Presenting history as mission 4. Rhetoric and trope Part 2: Innovating mission 5. Holy conquest 6. Latin occupation 7. Mission vow 8. Ignatian mission Part 3: Revising mission 9. Protestant reception 10. Missionary problems Epilogue: towards pilgrim witness Works cited

Toward a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology

Author : Rosalia Meza
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725258234
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology by : Rosalia Meza

Download or read book Toward a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology written by Rosalia Meza and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new and different frontiers and factors discussed in missiology are reshaping the meaning of mission. Christian mission today is searching for new directions to approach the postmodern, postcolonial, and ecumenical paradigms. This book argues that mission is the process of embodying the content and praxis of the gospel, not the transmission of knowledge that keeps an established structure and culture alive (often justified by a specific ecclesiological model). Thus, mission initiates a transformative process of faith, which leads to personal and social transformation. This work brings into dialogue Stephen Bevans’s notion of mission as prophetic dialogue and Paulo Freire’s concept of conscientização. The aim is not to discover a method to do mission but to rescue the process that leads to transformation, allowing one to encounter the other where they are while respecting the uniqueness of every person, culture, church, and society. Prophetic dialogue enriched by conscientização (and vice versa) can open new perspectives within missiology and provide a new approach to mission praxis. This approach is then analyzed through the experiential and transformative elements of the Verbum Dei charism applied in ministry, demonstrating the effectiveness of prophetic dialogue and conscientização in the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity mission praxis.

After-Mission, Beyond Evangelicalism

Author : Najib George Awad
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444436X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis After-Mission, Beyond Evangelicalism by : Najib George Awad

Download or read book After-Mission, Beyond Evangelicalism written by Najib George Awad and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After-Mission touches on on three questions.The first question is about self-perception and identity-formation strategies, and the various views that we have on the Protestants’ relation to their Arab Muslim Middle Eastern context. The second question, about the theological dimension, asks what kind of a theological discourse do the Protestants need to develop, and how do they need to re-form their own theological heritage, in such a manner that will allow them to heal the historical enmity and suspicion towards them from the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the region? Finally, the third question touches on the Protestants’ future in the Arab Muslim Middle East by viewing this inquiry from a broader perspective that is related to all the Middle Eastern Christian communities’ presence and role in the Muslim-majority context. The question of identity formation, and the managing of difference without trapping it in the mud of ‘otherizing and self-otherizing’, will also be tackled, so that the theological dimension is integrated with the broader, multifaceted contextual one.

Mission from the Perspective of the Other

Author : Tim Noble
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532650485
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Mission from the Perspective of the Other written by Tim Noble and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian mission involves God, the missionary, and the other, the recipient of mission. This book argues for the centrality of this other in the practice of mission. The other as child of God is presented, not as an empty vessel waiting to be filled, but as the one who draws near to the missionary. Both are sent by God, and together they enter into the journey towards God. Drawing on Scripture, contemporary missiology, and phenomenology, the book argues for the importance of this often neglected other and demonstrates through historical case studies involving Saint Ignatius of Loyola, William Carey, and Saint Innocent of Alaska that the recognition of the gift of the other has always been present in Christian mission and can continue to inspire.

Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations)

Author : Khalia J. Williams
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493431080
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations) by : Khalia J. Williams

Download or read book Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations) written by Khalia J. Williams and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to present key theological concepts related to worship to help readers articulate their own theology of worship. Contributors explore the history of theology's impact on worship practices across the Christian tradition, highlighting themes such as creation, pneumatology, sanctification, and mission. The book includes introductions by N. T. Wright and Nicholas Wolterstorff. A forthcoming volume will address the historical foundations of worship.

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies

Author : Kirsteen Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198831722
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies written by Kirsteen Kim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness

Author : Benjamin T. Conner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830885684
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness written by Benjamin T. Conner and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would it look if we "disabled" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Benjamin Conner initiates a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology, imagining a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission. In this vision, people with disabilities are part of the church's pluriform witness, and the congregation embodies a robust hermeneutic of the gospel.

The Missiological Spirit

Author : Amos Yong
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227904745
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Missiological Spirit written by Amos Yong and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices andacademic/theological impulses.

First Expressions

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 033405849X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book First Expressions written by Steve Taylor and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions.

Cultural Integration and the Gospel in Vietnamese Mission Theology

Author : KimSon Nguyen
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783687398
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Integration and the Gospel in Vietnamese Mission Theology written by KimSon Nguyen and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Vietnam has an urgent need for contextualized theology of mission, God, Christ, and the church that is rooted in indigenous cultural traditions and the dual Vietnamese spirit of resistance and assimilation. Dr KimSon Nguyen navigates the religio-cultural dimensions of Vietnamese spirituality and Daoism that have hindered the assimilation of the Christian faith in the Vietnamese context and explores a fresh approach to missiology in Vietnam. Dr Nguyen draws upon his deep knowledge of Vietnamese evangelical history to analyze contextualization and mission theology in Vietnam. He proposes an evangelical theology of God as Ðạo (way / 道), the centrality of the Vietnamese home as the “house of the Lord,” and ancestor veneration as a theological framework for an indigenous theology of the family. Narrowing the gap between culturally removed evangelical missionary practice and widespread syncretistic spirituality in Vietnam, Nguyen calls for a paradigm shift in Vietnamese mission theology that is both robustly evangelical and authentically Vietnamese.

But What Is the Church For?

Author : Neil Darragh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666732915
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book But What Is the Church For? written by Neil Darragh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the church really for? Some people are members of the church because it’s part of their family tradition or their culture or their identity. Others have left the church because that’s all it is in fact. Is it the best way to salvation or a way of coming closer to God? In any case, the church is not just for us or the benefits we get out of it. Very few of us would say that this is what the church is really for. There is surely something more here, something more generous, life-giving, outgoing, and gracious than what we personally get out of it. This book is about the church’s outreach beyond itself—its purpose beyond any benefits for those already its members. This book is not about a church looking inwards and worrying about itself, but about a church looking outwards. The local Christian community that we belong to is part of that much bigger, much more exhilarating project of the evolving realm of God.

A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context

Author : Hyo Seok Lim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725289210
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context written by Hyo Seok Lim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation. Many would agree that the vertical and horizontal dimensions of reconciliation should not be separated. It is, however, still necessary to examine further. For instance, what does the inseparableness of the two dimensions actually mean--in theory and practice? How does the vertical dimension of reconciliation become the source and foundation of the horizontal dimension? How should the church maintain its theology of reconciliation, which includes both dimensions? All these questions point to an underlying question: what is the relationship between the vertical and horizontal dimensions of reconciliation? This book explores this question, interacting with the four thinkers and practitioners of reconciliation, Karl Barth, Miroslav Volf, Son Yang-Won, and Desmond Tutu, and assessing the theology of a leading theologian in the discourse of mission as reconciliation, Robert Schreiter. Based on the discussions, it presents a proposal for a more wholesome and robust understanding of reconciliation for the discourse in mission studies, which can be applied to any broken context, including the Korean peninsula.

The Triune God and Mission

Author : Pieter Verster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666794368
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Triune God and Mission written by Pieter Verster and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderful love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit makes mission possible. A deep christological view of mission must be taken. The offices of Christ, namely his Kingly, Priestly, and Prophetic offices undergird mission. Glorious salvation is then possible. The Holy Spirit confesses that Christ is Lord. The church becomes a vehicle of the love of God through this confession. The Father's acceptance of the prodigal son is a deep missiological act. In the most challenging times of COVID-19, poverty, and international conflict, mission is radically necessary.