Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West
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ISBN-13: | 9780830839551 |
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Publisher: | InterVarsity Press |
Publication date: | 10/04/2012 |
Pages: | 355 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Greatest Commission Outlines of John 20:19-23 and of This Book Matters of Interpretation Defiant Optimism The State of the Western Church 2. Breaking Free Through Discerning Inculturation Inculturation Without Enculturation Cultural Disconnection of Western Churches and Breaking Free 3. Breaking Free of the Entrapment of Indiscriminate Enculturation Indiscriminate Enculturation of the Western Churches Despair Leading to Isolation Despair Within Even the Radical Emergent The Despair Undergirding Radical Orthodoxy Hope in the Christocentric, Trinitarian Church 4. Greatest Co-Mission: The Missional Trinity What Does It Mean to Be Trinitarian? The Trinity and the Power of Relationality The Trinity and the Dignity of Personhood The Trinity and Coinherence The Immanent and the Economic Trinities (Two Trinities or One?) The Trinity and Creation The Trinity and Election The Trinity and the Church: Unity with Diversity PART ONE : DISCOVERING SHALOM 5. Communities of Christ's Risen Presence Church as Christocentric Community Church as Celebratory Community Church as a Community of Shalom Church as a Missional, Open Community: A Community of Hospitality Church as Essential Community Church as the One Catholic Community Church as Community That Is Both Lively and Old Church as a Missional Community Church as a Catechetical Community 6. Mission of Incarnation and Resurrection The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Reaffirms God's Creation and Confirms the Church's Mission as a Creational Mission The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Affirms That Christian Mission Is a New Creational Mission 7. Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Beautiful Scars Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Joy Generated by Beautiful Scars Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Through Christocentric, Cruciform Worship,Teaching and Community Life 8. Mission About the Cross, Mission Under the Cross: His Completed Redemption Mission About the Cross Mission Under the Cross PART TWO: DISSEMINATING SHALOM 9. Communities of the Triune Missional God: Mission the Mother of Theology, Theology the Mother of Mission Biblical Evidence of God as Missional Theological Considerations of God as Missional The Nature of the Missional Church 10. Mission as Theosis Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit Implications of Incarnational and Pneumatic Theosis for the Church's Mission 11. Communities of the Spirit: Gathered and Scattered The Spirit in the Missional Church Gathered The Spirit in Missional Church Moral Formation The Spirit in the Missional Church Scattered 12. Communities of Forgiveness: Mission of Absolution and Freedom Remission at the Heart of the Gospel Remission Expressed in Participation with Christ by the Spirit Remission as an Initial and Permanent Saving Act and as an Ongoing Relational Practice Remission and Reconciliation as a Sign of the Kingdom Bibliography Name and Subject Index Scripture IndexWhat People are Saying About This
"This expository tour de force integrates all the main themes of half a century's missiological reflection. Its central thesis, that the heart of the missional heart of John's gospel is the Easter evening narrative, is totally convincing."
"Drawing on theological conversation partners throughout the history of the church, and more importantly the text of Scripture, Ross Hastings has crafted the definitive work on the missional church. Hastings brings into a dynamic synthesis years of pastoral experience and academic research and teaching. This is theology at its best: grounded in the Word of God, immensely practical and founded supremely on the beautiful reality of the missional triune God. After a careful analysis of our societal and ecclesial reality, Hastings takes us on an inspiring tour of trinitarian theology, Christian humanism, the kingdom of God and a deep ecclesiology. The end result of God's mission, he argues, is the inbreaking of the kingdom, shalom in the world and a fully human existence for people inside and outside the church. Thus the missional church would be both wide and deep. Would that this book were read and applied by every church leader."
"This expository tour de force integrates all the main themes of half a century's missiological reflection. Its central thesis, that the heart of the missional heart of John's gospel is the Easter evening narrative, is totally convincing."
"With his characteristic commitment to the church as well as his facility with and passion for trinitarian theology, Ross Hastings offers a perspective on ecclesiology and mission that cuts through the extremes that are so prevalent in the contemporary ecclesiastical culture without being esoteric on the one hand or overly pragmatic on the other."
"Ross Hastingspastor, theologian, scientist, lover of peoplehas written what can only be called a 'game changer.' With Spirit-infused passion, insight, precision and grace, Ross has engaged all the major players in the missional conversation and has significantly moved the conversation forward. Massively forward! Working with the Easter evening story of the resurrected Jesus in John 20, Ross moves things forward by relentlessly and joyfully drawing us deeper and deeper into a thrilling vision of the inner life of the triune missional God. As a result we can face the challenges before us out of renewed intimacy and 'intoxication' with the Great Missionary. This is the book we will return to again and again!"
"Ross Hastings has written a masterful work that, while taking a step back in order to look at the sad state of much of the Western church, offers hope based on deep theological truths and a renewed understanding of what we as a community of believers are called to embrace. Looking at missional concepts from a communal context, Ross sounds a clarion call for the church to become what it was intended to be, a community of shalom, healing and forgiveness in a hostile land."