Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology
Author :
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 331
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610972277
ISBN-13 : 1610972279
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology by : Paul S. Chung

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology offers a compelling case for the need to integrate God's mission and missional church conversation with a public and post-colonial study of World Christianity. Driven by a commitment to publicly engaged theology that takes seriously the reality of Global Christianity, Paul Chung presents a vital new model for understanding the mission of God as a dynamic word-event. This is argued in conversation with contemporary missional theology and analysis of the development of Global Christianity, and as such brings important transcultural issues to bear on contemporary American conversations about the missional church. All of this serves to innovatively stimulate this missional church conversation and more directly address the various questions that arise in pursuing mission in a multiculuralized American society.

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology
Author :
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 309
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781621891994
ISBN-13 : 1621891992
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology by : Paul S. Chung

Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology offers a compelling case for the need to integrate God's mission and missional church conversation with a public and post-colonial study of World Christianity. Driven by a commitment to publicly engaged theology that takes seriously the reality of Global Christianity, Paul Chung presents a vital new model for understanding the mission of God as a dynamic word-event. This is argued in conversation with contemporary missional theology and analysis of the development of Global Christianity, and as such brings important transcultural issues to bear on contemporary American conversations about the missional church. All of this serves to innovatively stimulate this missional church conversation and more directly address the various questions that arise in pursuing mission in a multiculuralized American society.

Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology

Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology
Author :
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Total Pages : 316
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780227906392
ISBN-13 : 022790639X
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology by : Christian T Collins Winn

The theology of Karl Barth has often been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology, but for too long the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology contributes to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation, neither of whom can be rightly understood as preservers of Protestant orthodoxy. Rather, American evangelicalism is identified with the revivalist forms of Protestantism that arose in the post-Reformation era, while Barth is revisited as a theologian attuned both to divine and human agency. In the ensuing conversation, questions of orthodoxy are not eliminated but subordinated to a concern for the life of God and God's people. By offering an alternative to the dominant constraints, this book opens up new avenues for fruitful conversation on Barth and the future of evangelical theology.

Beyond Missio Dei

Beyond Missio Dei
Author :
Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 388
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783030820688
ISBN-13 : 3030820688
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Missio Dei by : Sarosh Koshy

In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement.Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the other side are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory. This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology.

Reclaiming the Center

Reclaiming the Center
Author :
Publisher : Crossway
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781433517259
ISBN-13 : 1433517256
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Reclaiming the Center by : Millard J. Erickson

Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age.

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics
Author :
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 428
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781630870560
ISBN-13 : 1630870560
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics by : Paul S. Chung

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity. Mission as constructive theology is explored and refined in an hermeneutical and interdisciplinary fashion, underlying a new horizon of postcolonial theology and mission in light of God's act of speech. Missional church founded up God's grace of justification and Christ's diakonia of reconciliation becomes ethically oriented public church as it is engaged in mutireligious diversity of people's lives and lifeworld in the postcolonial context of World Christianity.

Sixteenth-Century Mission

Sixteenth-Century Mission
Author :
Publisher : Lexham Press
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781683594666
ISBN-13 : 1683594665
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Sixteenth-Century Mission by : Robert L. Gallagher

Did the Reformers lack a vision for missions? In Sixteenth-Century Mission, a diverse cast of contributors explores the wide-reaching practice and theology of mission during this era. Rather than a century bereft of cross-cultural outreach, we find both Reformers and Roman Catholics preaching the gospel and establishing the church in all the world. This overlooked yet rich history reveals themes and insights relevant to the practice of mission today.

Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities

Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 331
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783319581965
ISBN-13 : 3319581961
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities by : Paul S. Chung

This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.

Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe

Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 597
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004523197
ISBN-13 : 9004523197
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe by :

During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.

Suffering Divine Things

Suffering Divine Things
Author :
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 333
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780802846884
ISBN-13 : 0802846882
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Suffering Divine Things by : Reinhard Hütter

How do Christian beliefs and practices interrelate? What is the nature and task of theology? These questions have reemerged in the contemporary discussion with new vigor. In this book Reinhard Hütter explores the link between Christian theory and action, rigorously arguing for a renewed understanding of theology as a distinct church practice. Using "pathos"-"suffering" God's saving activity-as a powerful theological motif, Hütter offers fresh insight into the relationships between the Holy Spirit and the church, doctrine and theology, and beliefs and practices. In addition, Hütter shows how reclaiming "pathos" as a central motif for theology challenges modern and postmodern views focused on human identity, agency, and creativity as definitive of theology's nature and task. Throughout, Hütter remains acutely aware of recent trends in theological discourse and develops his argument in conversation with leading contemporary thinkers from North America and Europe. His constructive work promises to reclaim theology's crucial role in the life and mission of the church.