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Author: Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1570759111
Size: 75.52 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Prophetic Dialogue eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of essays that demonstrates that to be effective in the twenty-first century, mission must be prophetic as it encounters other cultures and religious traditions. "When we speak as mission as dialogue, then, we are about as far away from imagining mission as 'conquering the world for Christ' and missionaries as 'marines of the Catholic Church' as we probably can get. There has indeed been a radical shift, both in the world in which the church does mission and within the church's own consciousness of the goodness and even holiness of that world." These words from one of the essays in this superb collection clearly demonstrate the changing of mission today. In this volume, Fathers Bevans and Schroeder address a primary challenge faced by Christians missioners today: How can they bring the Christian tradition to interact respectfully and effectively with members of other cultures and traditions from around the globe and still be prophetic?

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen B. Bevans and Roger P. Schroeder
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608330257
Size: 37.53 MB
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Download PDF Prophetic Dialogue Reflections On Christian Mission Today eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen B. Bevans (s.v.d.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626981355
Size: 65.88 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015
Category: Dialogue
Language: en
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Download PDF Mission On The Road To Emmaus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this remarkable collection of essays the editors and contributors reflect on the "constants" of mission throughout history and in today's context: the centrality of Christ and of Trinitarian faith, the importance of the communal or ecclesial nature of mission, the connection between missionary reflection and practice and a person's or community's eschatological vision, a person's or community's conviction about the nature of salvation) the perspective on the nature of humanity, and the appreciation or suspicion of culture. In a framework of prophetic dialogue, theologians and missiologists from around the world relate these to the six elements of mission: witness and proclamation; liturgy, prayer, and contemplation; justice, peace, and the integrity of creation; interreligious dialogue; inculturation; and reconciliation. Out of this prophetic dialogue emerge theological reflections that are showing a way forward for theology and mission in a global context. Book jacket.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608330281
Size: 61.86 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Constants In Context eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Mission is handicapped without a sound biblical theology of mission and an understanding of the history of mission leading up to our current context. Constants in Context offers both of these elements. It is mission theology in historical perspective and/or a history of mission that is grounded theologically. The authors describe it as a systematic theology with mission at its core, and a church history shaped by the constant but always contextual Christian traditions. Furthermore it is a constructive contribution to how mission theology needs to be practical and lived out through today's church and in our world. Written collaboratively by Roman Catholic writers Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, both Missionaries of the Divine Word (SVDs). It is a particularly insightful in regard to the history and the various streams of Catholic mission but it also addresses and learns from the other traditions of the church. In fact, one of the book's strengths is its attention to neglected aspects and hidden stories of church and mission history. As a result it is gratifying to be inspired by non-European mission, women in mission and various forgotten or often ignored branches of the church. The book is in three sections: first, there is a framework for cultural contexts and theological constants; second, an in-depth exploration of historical stages and different models for mission; and third, a presentation of theological frameworks for mission. The third section concludes with a case for 'mission as prophetic dialogue' being the most appropriate model for 21st century mission." -- Amazon.com.

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Book Detail:
Author: Irvin, Dale T.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337650
Size: 62.27 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2018-12-20
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Christian Mission Contextual Theology Prophetic Dialogue eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "While the intent of the editors is to honor Steve Bevans, SVD, a towering figure in the field of missiology and a longtime author of Orbis books on missiology, this book will be designed less as a festschrift than as a textbook for classroom use. Designed around the three main foci of Bevans' theology (mission, contextual theologies, and dialogical theory), it will appeal to teachers of courses in Christian mission, theological method, contextual theologies, and contemporary Third World theologies. The contributors are a who's who of contemporary mission studies in a global context, including representatives from various Christian traditions and from throughout the global church"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Kirsteen Kim
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334046084
Size: 39.73 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Joining In With The Spirit eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Joining in with the Spirit makes the connection between mission as the work of mission agencies overseas and mission as the activity of a local church. It shows how, through the global flows of scholarship, missionary movements and migration, mission initiatives in different parts of the world impinge on the churches in Britain, which are but part of a world church. Joining in with the Spirit is an accessible introduction to mission studies - the history, theology and issues of mission, which is up-to-date and supported by contemporary scholarship. It also offers a theological framework for mission, which applies both globally and locally, to help the reader discern the movement of the Spirit of Christ among the many other spirits of this world. This text illustrates the impact of the 1910 Edinburgh world missionary conference and shows how the churches in Britain as a part of a much wider movement of the Spirit of Christ that is world Christianity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cathy Ross
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049113
Size: 34.64 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-01-31
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Mission On The Road To Emmaus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Aimed at scholars and students of missiology, this book consider missions through the lens of ‘prophetic dialogue'. The authors try to to bring a fresh approach to the subject of mission– introducing some newer themes (identity, creation, migration) and offering a different perspective on some older themes by grouping them in this way.

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Book Detail:
Author: Roji T. George
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532693087
Size: 54.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-09-10
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Holy Spirit And Christian Mission eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a collection of articles from various church backgrounds and theological viewpoints. It reaffirms the necessity and urgency of a pneumatic missiology. It does not speak of God’s saving mission as originating simply from God; it highlights the central role of the Spirit in the effective mission of the church.

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Book Detail:
Author: Byungohk Lee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498219454
Size: 47.45 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015-05-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Listening To The Neighbor eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Trinity can be understood as a social community with members speaking and listening to one another in love, or, as Luther understood the Trinity, as conversation, then God's mission essentially involves in mission-in-dialogue. Byungohk Lee contends the church has to embrace the dialogical dimension in missional terms because the triune God is the subject of mission. The missional church conversation has taken it for granted that local churches should speak and listen to their neighbors. In contrast, for many churches in Asia, including Korea, mission has generally tended to be practiced in a monological, rather than dialogical, manner. The neighbor has not been regarded as a conversational partner of the church, but only as the object for its mission. In Listening to the Neighbor Lee shows that some local churches have participated in God's mission by listening to their neighbors. He argues that listening is not a technique, but a multifaceted learning process in missional terms. The church must nurture its hearts, eyes, and ears in order to listen to the sigh of its neighbors.

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Book Detail:
Author: James H. Kroeger
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1626980128
Size: 63.60 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Gift Of Mission eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This title provides a comprehensive summary of the rewards and challenges of doing mission as Maryknoll begins its second hundred years in a greatly changed world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen Bevans
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814684785
Size: 67.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2018-09-27
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Priesthood In Religious Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the first book in English on priesthood in religious life to be published in twenty years. Its fourteen contributors search for new ways forward in the understanding of the distinct identity and ministry of religious men—committed to community, the prophetic lifestyle of vows or promises, and the particular charisms of their congregations—who have also answered the call to priesthood. Essays in this collection include reflections from a bishop, from the perspective of a lay theologian, from an expert in the social sciences, and on Pope Francis’s teachings on priesthood. Included as well are essays that are rooted in particular cultural traditions, in spirituality, and in canon law.

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Book Detail:
Author: Nelus Niemandt
Publisher: AOSIS
ISBN: 1928523056
Size: 72.35 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-12-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Missional Leadership eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The purpose and aim of this book is to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. This implies a positioning of this book within the broader theology of mission and a consensus on the theology of the Missio Dei, originating at the 1952 conference of the International Missionary Council in Willingen, Germany. In this approach to the theology of mission, mission is understood as the work of the Trinitarian God, and the church is privileged to participate in God’s mission. It is against this background that the growing consensus on missional ecclesiology challenges leadership models developed for a different time and a different kind of church (with less or no emphasis on the missional character of the church). The aim is to reflect theologically on the role of leadership in the missional church. What kind of ideas about power, authority and leadership are appropriate for a missional church? New missional challenges demand new ideas about missional leadership. Church organisation and leadership reflects a theological position – there is a strong relation between ecclesiology and church organisation. The nature of the church provides the framework to understand the character of the church. What the church is determines what the church does. The church organises what it does and agrees on rules that regulate ministries and organisation. Issues such as the way the church organises and governs what it does, and thus church leadership, need to be answered against this background and understanding. Church polity and organisation, as well as leadership, must reflect the identity, calling, life and order of the church. This book, therefore, addresses life in the Trinity, participation in the Missio Dei and contours of the missional church as the point of entry to develop leadership insights. It contributes towards the development of an appropriate model of leadership for missional churches, because although recent developments in the theology of mission comprehensively addressed the area of missional ecclesiology, there is a gap in the development of a leadership model based on the concept of authority in the missional church.

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Book Detail:
Author: Vladimir Latinovic
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030554589
Size: 75.52 MB
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Release Date: 2021-01-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Stolen Churches Or Bridges To Orthodoxy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the tension has increased. In July 2019, scholars of both traditions gathered in Stuttgart, Germany, for an unprecedented conference devoted to exploring and overcoming the division between these churches. This book, the second in a two-volume set of the essays presented at the conference, explores the ecumenical and practical implications of the relationship between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Like the conference, the volume brings together representatives of these Churches, as well as theologians from different geographical contexts where tensions are the greatest. The published essays represent the great achievements of the conference: willingness to engage in dialogue, general openness to new ideas, and opportunities to address difficult questions and heal inherited wounds.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rosalia Meza
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725258234
Size: 13.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-06-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Toward A New Praxis Oriented Missiology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Samuel Escobar
Publisher: Langham Global Library
ISBN: 1907713026
Size: 78.81 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-07-14
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Time For Mission eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Christian mission in the twenty-first century has become the responsibility of a global church. The heart of 'mission' is the drive to cross geographical, cultural and social barriers in order to share the good news of Jesus Christ with all peoples. Drawing on his involvement in missionary work over many years, Samuel Escobar explores how the church spreads the Christian faith. God's Word forms the foundation for his reflections, while he uses insights from theological and historical studies as well as from the social sciences to gain a clearer understanding of the church's missionary calling. His stimulating and challenging analysis contributes significantly to a global evangelical dialogue on mission today and in the future.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jane Holslag
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643903871
Size: 20.71 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2013
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Berlin Fellowship eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The cold war border was crossed between 1961 and 1989 through Berlin Fellowship, an ecumenical visitation program. Under the watchful eye of the Stasi, the security police, East German Christians welcomed guests from the US into their congregations and homes for an hour, an evening or a weekend of discussion, shared meals and worship. The voice of the other through eastern recollections and perspectives on this unique form of koinonia reveal how fellowship can be missional and transformative.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexander C. Forsyth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498232698
Size: 38.43 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-08-29
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Mission By The People eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How is Christianity to express itself in the public forum within Western nations? This book seeks answers through a historical retrieval of the dynamic mission in post-war Scotland of Tom Allan and his contemporaries: the Iona Community; the Gorbals Group Ministry inspired by the East Harlem Protestant Parish; and Robert Mackie, Ian Fraser and Scottish Churches House. Allan’s missiology focused upon the apostolate of the laity: allowing ordinary people to express their faith in word and deed in a full contextualization of Christianity to seek a missionary parish of constant witness and service. The book examines his work in parish ministry, nationally as leader of the Tell Scotland Movement, and internationally with the WCC; and the rich sources and context of his missiology. Key questions are asked about tensions caused by the role of the church, and the effect of the Billy Graham “All Scotland Crusade,” which Allan instigated, on the rapid decline in Christian adherence from the late fifties. His work is placed alongside his contemporaries, who took bold steps beyond those of Allan to relocate faith to the rhythms of the streets. Utilizing present day missiology as a lens, their inspiration leads to derivations and principles, offered as guideposts for Christian mission now.

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Book Detail:
Author: Craig Ott
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493405772
Size: 10.29 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-08-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Mission Of The Church eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Leading Voices from across Christian Traditions Discuss the Mission of the Church What is the mission of the church? Every seminarian and church leader must wrestle with that question. No matter what designation a church uses to describe itself, it must also think critically about why it exists and what it should be doing. In this book, five leading voices representing a range of Christian traditions engage in an enlightening conversation as they present and compare their perspectives on the mission of the church. Each contributor offers his or her view and responds to the other four views. Contributors include Stephen B. Bevans, Darrell L. Guder, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Edward Rommen, and Ed Stetzer. The book's format is ideal for classroom use and will also benefit pastors and church leaders.

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Book Detail:
Author: Andrew F. Bush
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532633432
Size: 44.86 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-10-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Millennials And The Mission Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As mainstream media cries out that the millennial generation has killed everything from cereal to office jobs, it must also be asked: have millennials killed Christian missions? With the rise of new technologies, social and political movements, and increasing numbers of religious nones, the church as we know it is facing serious turmoil at the hands of this new generation of adults. Here, a millennial and a baby boomer invite the reader into a dialogue about the future of missions and the future of the Western church. From a missiological reading of the Bible to the contemporary debate over Christian social justice and the ethical dilemmas of evangelism, this book plays out the intergenerational tensions within the church, and provides a platform from which to view the present and future of an institution that is so rapidly changing.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kirsteen Kim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198831722
Size: 30.16 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-04-28
Category: Missions
Language: en
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Download PDF The Oxford Handbook Of Mission Studies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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