The Missional Church in Perspective

Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation.
Two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in
historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development.
They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church
and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our Culture Network's
seminal book Missional Church, which set the conversation in motion. They map
the diverse paths this discussion has taken over the past decade, identifying
four primary branches and ten sub-branches of the conversation and placing over
one hundred published titles and websites into this framework. The authors then
utilize recent developments in biblical and theological perspectives to
strengthen and extend the conversation about missional theology, the church's
interaction with culture and cultures, and church organization and leadership
in relation to the formation of believers as disciples. It includes a foreword
by Alan J. Roxburgh.
This book is a veritable morphology of the term 'missional.' As such it " provides both conceptual tools with which to assess the impact of missional
ideas on the Western church and a map that helps us chart possible future
trajectories of what is clearly one of the most important movements in our
times. Whether one fully agrees with the analysis or not, it certainly brings
needed clarity to what is fast becoming a dangerously murky concept. - " Alan Hirsch
Authors: Craig Van Gelder and Dwight J. Zscheile.
Recommended € 19,90