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Seeking Church - Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom (Paperback)
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Seeking Church - Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom (Paperback)
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New expressions of church that are proliferating among Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist, and other non-Christian religious communities,
including so-called insider movements, have raised intense
discussion in missiological circles. In Seeking Church, Darren
Duerksen and William Dyrness address these issues by exploring how
all Christian movements have been and are engaged in a "reverse
hermeneutic," where the gospel is read and interpreted through
existing cultural and religious norms. Duerksen and Dyrness draw on
the growing social-scientific work on emergent theory-the concept
that social communities arise over time in ways that reflect
specific historical and cultural dynamics. This is a missiological
process, they argue, in which God has always worked through people
and their culture to shape his witness in the world. They
illustrate emergent theory through historical and contemporary case
studies and consider the church's contextualized nature by
exploring biblical models of the church, worship practices as
emergent, and ecclesial markers that identify emerging churches and
their distinctive witness. For missiologists, theologians,
practitioners, and all who ponder the challenge and opportunities
of mission among other religious communities, Seeking Church offers
a multidisciplinary conceptual framework with which to understand
the global diversity of the body of Christ. The Spirit is
constantly drawing people toward God's community, causing new
expressions of church to emerge and thus displaying new facets of
his work and character. Missiological Engagements charts
interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history,
theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
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