Ecclesianarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecclesianarchy write by John Williams. This book was released on 2020-09-30. Ecclesianarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, 'Ecclesianarchy' brings theological and practical insight to bear on the question of ministry's provisionality.
Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1
Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1 write by Nigel Rooms. This book was released on 2021-06-02. Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecclesial Futures publishes original research and theological reflection on the development and transformation of local Christian communities and the systems that support them as they join in the mission of God in the world. We understand local Christian communities broadly to include traditional “parish” churches and independent local churches, religious communities and congregations, new church plants, so-called “fresh expressions” of church, “emergent” churches, and “new monastic” communities. We are an international and ecumenical journal with an interdisciplinary understanding of our approach to theological research and reflection; the core disciplines being theology, missiology, and ecclesiology. Other social science and theological disciplines may be helpful in supporting the holistic nature of any research, e.g., anthropology and ethnography, sociology, statistical research, biblical studies, leadership studies, and adult learning. The journal fills an important reflective space between the academy and on-the-ground practice within the field of mission studies, ecclesiology, and the so-called “missional church.” This opportunity for engagement has emerged in the last twenty or so years from a turn to the local (and the local church) and, in the western world at least, from the demise of Christendom and a rapidly changing world—which also affects the church globally. The audience for the journal is truly global wherever the local church and the systems that support them exists. We expect to generate interest from readers in church judicatory bodies, theological seminaries, university theology departments, and in local churches from all God’s people and the leaders amongst them.
Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Ship write by A.D.A France-Williams. This book was released on 2020-07-10. Ghost Ship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of black flourishing. Through conversation with clergy, lay people and campaigners in the Church of England, A.D.A France-Williams issues a stark warning to the church, demonstrating how black and brown ministers are left to drown in a sea of complacency and collusion. While sticking plaster remedies abound, France-Williams argues that what is needed is a wholesale change in structure and mindset. Unflinching in its critique of the church, Ghost Ship explores the harrowing stories of institutional racism experienced then and now, within the Church of England. Far from being an issue which can be solved by simply recruiting more black and brown clergy, says France-Williams, structural racism requires a wholesale dismantling and reassembling of the ship - before it is too late.
The Humble Church
The Humble Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Humble Church write by Martyn Percy. This book was released on 2021-03-31. The Humble Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself – its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence – and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in order to become more like Christ? As Christ poured out his life for the sake of others, he considers ways in which the Church might imitate Christ in practice today. Whenever Jesus visited anywhere beyond the confines of the Jewish community he immediately became socially useful, and so this extols such virtues as humble service in the community, not because it is an effective way to grow the Church, but because it is faithful to Christ’s own example. Avoiding responses such as exasperation, righteous anger at shortcomings or wishful thinking about returning to the past, he sets out a vision for the Church's future that is both biblical and christological. Incisive, imaginative and engagingly written, this will resonate deeply with many lay and ordained members of the Church.
Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor
Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor write by Cathy Ross. This book was released on 2020-08-30. Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The impact that John V. Taylor had on our contemporary understanding of mission is vast – his determination that mission should mean engagement across cultural boundaries has deep resonance today. In 'Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor', leading missional thinkers Jonny Baker and Cathy Ross invite us into a vision of church, mission and society which takes John Taylor’s ideas seriously, seeking to imagine what Taylor’s insights might mean for these three areas in our contemporary context. The result is a clarion call to the church to take bigger risks and dream bigger dreams.
