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Chargement... Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glorypar Scott W. Sunquist
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This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today. Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Understanding Christian Mission is an introduction to mission that is essentially three books in one. Part 1 sets the historical background, overviewing the spread of the church in the ancient and medieval world, showing how mission, colonization, civilization, and commerce have been intertwined since the age of Columbus, and outlining the reconception of mission after World War II and the collapse of the colonial era. Part 2 builds a trinitarian theology of mission that is rooted in the life, teaching, and ministry of Jesus and his experience of suffering and glory. Christ’s experience should define Christian existence and should permeate the church because it is a mark of true spiritually. Part 3 sets out a missional ecclesiology that aims to involve the whole church in mission as it follows the God whose very nature is missional. Three themes highlight the church’s mission in the modern world: urban mission, partnership, and spirituality.
Due to its breadth and depth, clarity and charity, academic insight and spiritual warmth this book delivers. The historical section benefits readers by grounding the missionary task in history and putting evangelical missions into perspective by placing it alongside Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and ecumenical missions—a feat rarely attempted in evangelical missions literature. The theological and practical sections—following the words of the subtitle—remind us that just as the Lord experienced suffering and glory, so too will his church. In spite of our difficulties, the book wonderfully proclaims that “The final word in mission is glory—not suffering” (410).
While the book is best suited for a course on Christian mission, it is accessible to laypeople and should be read by everyone who has a part in the missio Dei. Understanding Christian Mission received the Christianity Today book award for missions in 2014.
From Mission Round Table May 2015 (