Missiological Education For The Twenty First Century

Author : J. Dudley Woodberry,Charles E. Van Engen,Edgar J. Elliston
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597522366

Get Book

Missiological Education for the Twenty-first Century by J. Dudley Woodberry,Charles E. Van Engen,Edgar J. Elliston Pdf

Thoughtful and original contributions from twenty-one of the world's foremost missiologists, in a volume dedicated to Fuller Seminary's former dean Paul E. Pierson, outline an agenda for mission education that will provoke lively discussion for years to come. Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Mission is the locus of some of the most creative thought and scholarly reflection on Christian mission in today's world. Edited by the School's dean and two professors, a score of authors respond to the question: How should missiological education be carried out to prepare men and women to work in the twenty-first century? Contributors: -Andrew F. Walls -Gerald H. Anderson -Paul G. Hiebert -Kenneth Mulholland -L. Grant McClung -Jerald D. Gort -Mary Motte -Michael James Oleksa -Tite Tienou -Samuel Escobar -Ken R. Gnanakan -Wilbert R. Shenk -Darrell Whiteman -Roger S. Greenway -Philip C. Stine -Stuart Dauermann -Ralph D. Winter -J. Dudley Woodberry -Viggo Sogaard -Charles Van Engen -Edgar J. Elliston

Author : Thomas M. Crisp,Steve L. Porter,Gregg Ten Elshof
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467442077

Get Book

Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas M. Crisp,Steve L. Porter,Gregg Ten Elshof Pdf

The Christian tradition provides a wealth of insight into perennial human questions about the shape of the good life, human happiness, virtue, justice, wealth and poverty, spiritual growth, and much else besides -- and Christian scholars can do great good by bringing that rich tradition into conversation with the broader culture. But what is the nature and purpose of distinctively Christian scholarship, and what does that imply for the life and calling of the Christian scholar? What is it about Christian scholarship that makes it Christian? Ten eminent scholars grapple with such questions in this volume. They offer deep and thought-provoking discussions of the habits and commitments of the Christian scholar, the methodology and pedagogy of Christian scholarship, the role of the Holy Spirit in education, Christian approaches to art and literature, and more. CONTRIBUTORS Jonathan A. Anderson Dariusz M. Brycko Natasha Duquette M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall George Hunsinger Paul K. Moser Alvin Plantinga Craig J. Slane Nicholas Wolterstorff Amos Yong

Author : Enoch Wan
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645080091

Get Book

Christian Witness in Pluralistic Contexts in the Twenty-First Century by Enoch Wan Pdf

"This volume is not a set of textbook answers on how to witness to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and people with other religions based on simple formulas. It is the wrestlings, affirmations, and testimonies of those who have been deeply involved in ministries to people of other religious faiths and have thought deeply about the issues religious pluralism raises." - Paul G. Hiebert, Professor Emeritus, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Author : Jehu Hanciles
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331031

Get Book

Beyond Christendom by Jehu Hanciles Pdf

Hanciles does yeoman work in part one synthesizing studies on the impact of globalization, revealing that its outcomes will likely not be determined by the Euro-American heartlands that sparked this movement. Instead, in parts two he shows that migration in general is having an enormous effect on shaping a new world order, and in part three, "Mobile Faith," he advances the case for the migration of Christians as carrying within it the seeds of renewal for the whole church and also the potential to reshape church-state and religion and culture relations globally.

Author : Charles Van Engen
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645081258

Get Book

Transforming Mission Theology by Charles Van Engen Pdf

Missiology permeated with theological reflection. This volume is the culmination of Van Engen’s teachings, but takes us to an even deeper level. Since mission is first and foremost God’s mission, theological reflection must be permeated by missiological understanding and our missiology must be permeated with theological reflection. Mission theology is an activity of the Church of Jesus Christ seeking to understand more deeply why, how, when, where, and wherefore the followers of Jesus may participate in God’s mission, in God’s world.

Author : Stanley M. Burgess,Paul W. Lewis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498238137

Get Book

A Light to the Nations by Stanley M. Burgess,Paul W. Lewis Pdf

The essays in this volume, which are written by friends, colleagues, and former students, are dedicated to Gary B. McGee as a memorial to his life, work, and service. As a professor with a clear calling to teach, he modeled this passion at the Open Bible College (Des Moines, Iowa), Central Bible College (Springfield, Missouri), and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (Springfield, Missouri). He exuded the understanding that quality teaching, superior scholarship, a genuine Pentecostal spirituality, and an irenic spirit can and should go together. Within the title of this volume, A Light to the Nations, two aspects become clear. First, each person is called to be "a light to the nations," as Gary McGee modeled. Second, and foundational to the first, is the reality that Jesus Christ is the ultimate light, and our energies, study, discussions, and life in general should rely on this fact. As a reflection of Gary McGee's life and ministry, these two aspects are focused through three lenses, which are the three sections of this volume: Ecumenism, Missions, and Pentecostalism. The essays represent a diversity of subjects and denote various explorations by colleagues and friends of Gary B. McGee.

Author : Union Biblical Seminary (Pune, India). Centre for Mission Studies. Consultation
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Missions
ISBN : 818458086X

Get Book

Missiological Education by Union Biblical Seminary (Pune, India). Centre for Mission Studies. Consultation Pdf

Author : Kenneth Nehrbass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272224

Get Book

Advanced Missiology by Kenneth Nehrbass Pdf

Advanced Missiology draws the connections between the theory and practice of missions. Using the metaphor of a river, the book shows how theories “upstream” such as theology, education, anthropology, community development, and history have exerted an influence on missiology (and missiology, in turn, has gone back upstream to influence those disciplines). What causes these disciplines to converge in missiology is the goal of making disciples across cultures. Whereas missiologists are not always explicit about how their abstract theories actually relate to the task of making disciples across cultures, each chapter in Advanced Missiology shows how numerous theories, sub-fields, models, and strategies of missiology ultimately facilitate the Great Commission. The book argues that by using interdisciplinarity for this fundamental purpose, missiological studies will be more credible and useful. With contributions from: Rebecca Burnett Leanne Dzubinski Julie Martinez

Author : Alan R. Johnson
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878080342

Get Book

Apostolic Function by Alan R. Johnson Pdf

In the past we have focused on the “why” of missions in terms of motives, the “what” of missions in terms of the content of the message, and the “how” of missions in terms of methodologies and strategies, but the “where” question, in terms of where we send cross-cultural workers, has simply been assumed; it has meant crossing a geographic boundary. In Apostolic Function in 21st Century Missions, Alan R. Johnson introduces the idea of apostolic function as the paradigm of missionary self-identity that reminds us to focus our efforts on where Christ is not named. He then examines in detail the “where” paradigm in missions, frontier mission missiology, with a sympathetic critique and a review of the major contributions of unreached people group thinking. Johnson concludes by illustrating his notion of seeking to integrate missions paradigms and discussing of issues that relate specifically to the “where” questions of missions today. 2nd in the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, J. Philip Hogan World Missions Series

Author : Amos Yong
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227904749

Get Book

The Missiological Spirit by Amos Yong Pdf

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.

Author : Michael E. Connors
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532601996

Get Book

What We Have Seen and Heard by Michael E. Connors Pdf

One of the chief challenges of the Second Vatican Council was to reclaim the meaning of baptism, especially as the foundation of service and mission in the world. Fifty years after the close of that watershed gathering, nineteen distinguished religious leaders and scholars reexamine that challenge and its implications for preaching and ministry today. This book reinvigorates an important conversation.

Author : Wessly Lukose
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328941

Get Book

Contextual Missiology of the Spirit by Wessly Lukose Pdf

This book explores the identity, context and features of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India as well as the internal and external issues facing Pentecostals. It argues for an indigenous origin of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, as it is a product of local Spirit revivals in the existing churches and the missionary activities of Indian Pentecostals. It also reveals that both the intra-church as well as extra-church issues place Pentecostals in a 'missio-ethical dilemma.' The book aims to suggest 'a contextual missiology of the Spirit,' as a new model of contextual missiology from a Pentecostal perspective. It is presented as a glocal, ecumenical, transformational, and public missiology.

Author : Casely B. Essamuah,David K. Ngaruiya
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630873073

Get Book

Communities of Faith in Africa and the African Diaspora by Casely B. Essamuah,David K. Ngaruiya Pdf

Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora. The essays span history, theology, anthropology, ecumenism, and missiology. Readers will be treated to fresh perspectives on African Pentecostal higher education, Pentecostalism and witchcraft in East Africa, Methodist camp meetings in Ghana, Ghanaian diaspora missions in Europe and North America, gender roles in South African Christian communities, HIV/AIDS ministries in Uganda, Japanese funerary rites, enculturation and contextualization principles of mission, and many other aspects of the Christian world mission. With essays from well-known scholars as well as young and emerging men and women in academia, Communities of Faith illuminates current realities of world Christianity and contributes to the scholarship of today's worldwide Christian witness.

Author : Jukka A. Kääriäinen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621896623

Get Book

Mission Shaped by Promise by Jukka A. Kääriäinen Pdf

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 : Evelyn Hibbert,Richard Hibbert
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645081043

Get Book

Training Missionaries by Evelyn Hibbert,Richard Hibbert Pdf

Missionaries must know God, be able to relate well to other people, understand and engage with another culture, and be able to use the Bible in a way that informs all aspects of their lives and ministries. Missionary training must address each of these areas if it is to help Christians to be effective in taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. Effective training has been shown to prevent people from prematurely leaving the field. It also reduces the danger of cross-cultural workers uncritically exporting culturally bound forms of Christianity. This book details four key areas that every missionary training program, whatever its context, must focus on developing. It shows how these can be holistically addressed in a learning community where trainers and trainees engage in cross-cultural ministry together.