Missional God, missional church : hope for re-evangelizing the West / Ross Hastings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hastings, Ross, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Theory.

Missions.

Church.

Trinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building on the works of David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin and others, Ross Hastings delivers a comprehensive theology of mission founded on the trinitarian doctrine of God and a great optimism about the possible re-evangelization of the Western world.

Contents:

The greatest commission

Breaking free through discerning inculturation

Breaking free of the entrapment of indiscriminate enculturation

Greatest co-mission : the missional Trinity

Communities of Christ's risen presence

Mission of incarnation and resurrection

Communities of Christ's crucified presence : beautiful scars

Mission about the cross, mission under the cross : his completed redemption

Communities of the Triune missional God : mission the mother of theology, theology the mother of mission

Mission as theosis

Communities of the spirit : gathered and scattered

Communities of forgiveness : mission of absolution and freedom.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-325) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780830839551

9780830863488

0830863486

OCLC:

908511941