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Being the People of God: Missional Ecclesiology for Uncertain Times [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x135 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025
  • Kirjastus: SCM Press
  • ISBN-10: 0334066425
  • ISBN-13: 9780334066422
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x135 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025
  • Kirjastus: SCM Press
  • ISBN-10: 0334066425
  • ISBN-13: 9780334066422
Teised raamatud teemal:
- Draws together diverse collection of contributors to theologically interrogate Church of England’s missional ecclesiology in practice- Practical theological reflections help to ground the theory in the everyday life of the church.- Includes a general introduction from Rowan Williams In unsteady political, societal and ecclesial times, what might a missional ecclesiology offer Drawn from a consultation instigated by the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission, this book seeks to offer a generative conversation involving theologians and practitioners across three key themes – the church’s worship as a gathered community, its witness as a scattered community, and its walk as a pilgrim community. So often the church speaks as if there was a binary division between ‘being’ and ‘doing’, yet the contributors to this book collectively demonstrate that the situation is more complex.Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer an important resource for all who want to deepen and widen their understanding of the church’s academic engagement with contemporary ecclesiology.With contributors including: Johnny Baker, Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Angus Ritchie, Cathy Ross and Andrew Rumsey.

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This collection of essays, stories and reflections brings together two Christian imperatives which all too rarely encounter one another: Being missional and Having an ecclesiology. The conversation that results is stimulating, provoking, and full of the Spirit of God. It has much to offer to pioneers, planters and fresh expressers, to pastors, liturgists and parish savers, and even to bishops. -- Michael Ipgrave If our missionary imagination is formed in an echo chamber, we shouldnt be surprised at tired, predictable or divisive results. This timely volume is the opposite: not an echo chamber but an open conversation around shared tables. Reading it I found my thinking expanded, my assumptions challenged and my faith lifted. Taken as a whole, the essays illustrate a generous breadth of ways to be a missional church, but also the fundamental unity of the Spirits work in it all. This, plus a host of inspiring and authentic stories, make it a worked example of the mixed ecology at its creative best. -- Mark Powley

List of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Paul Bradbury, Isabelle Hamley, Andy Smith
Part I Being Worship
1 Being Worship in the Making of Disciples 9
Hannah Steele
2 Being Worship in a Neighbourhood Ecology 22
Al Barrett
3 Being Eucharist 38
Alison Milbank
4 The Tender-hearted Community Why Inclusion Means Interdependence 51
Sharon Prentis
5 Being Worship in the Parish 64
Andy Smith
6 Life, Death and Resurrection in Church Planting 70
Sarah McDonald Haden
7 Being Worship: To Proclaim Afresh in each Generation 75
Isabelle Hamley
Part II Being Witness
8 Being Witness in a Global City 83
Ana França-Ferreira and Angus Ritchie
9 Being Witness to the Edges 98
Jonny Baker
10 Being Witness at the End of Modernity: Paradigm Shifts in Mission for the
English Parish Church 112
Nigel Rooms
11 Practical Theological Reflection Pioneering a Fresh Expression of Church
on an Outer Estate in Southampton 125
Jon Oliver
12 Ecological Conversion and the Awakening from Earth Amnesia 134
John White
13 Being Witness: Mission in a Changing Landscape 140
Andy Smith
Part III Being Pilgrim
14 Being Pilgrim, Being Parish 149
Christopher Hodder
15 Being Pilgrim in the Cathedral 166
David Monteith
16 Being Pilgrim in the Shadow of Empire 181
James Butler and Cathy Ross
17 Being Pilgrim into the Unknown 196
Tina Hodgett
18 Reflection: Garden Church, Norfolk 210
David Lloyd
19 Reflection: Being Pilgrim on the Margins 217
Fiona Gibson
20 Reflection: Navigating Faith and Identity: The Journey of Iranian
Christian Converts in the UK 223
Omid Moludy
21 Editors Reflection 233
Paul Bradbury
In Place of a Conclusion 239
Mike Harrison
Paul Bradbury is a pioneer minister, freelance researcher and writer, and a visiting tutor with the Church Mission Society and Ripon College Cuddesdon.

Isabelle Hamley is Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Andy Smith is a team rector and serves on the Church of England Ministry Experience Scheme national steering group.