TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill,Graham
TI  - Salt, light and a city: introducing missional ecclesiology 
SN  - 9781608997565
AV  - BV 601.8 .H55 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - WIPF & STOCK
KW  - Church
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Mission of the church
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Contents; pt. 1 Surveying the Euro-American landscape; Roman Catholic; Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI): The Church as Communion; Karl Rahner: The Church as Community of Witness; Hans Kung: The Church as Eschatological Community of Salvation; Eastern Orthodox; Thomas Hopko: The Church as fullness of God; Vigen Guroian: The Church as peculiar, ethical community; John Zizioulas: The Church as Eucharistic communion; Protestant; Letty Russell: The Church as household of freedom; Jurgen Moltmann: The Church as Messianic, relational Koinonia; John Webster: The Church as Communion of Saints; Free Church; John Howard Yoder: The Church as New, Redeemed Community; Barry Harvey: The Church as Altera Civitas; Miroslav Volf: The Church as Image of the Trinity; pt. 2 Introducing missional ecclesiology-- through conversation; The thinking-in-community church : encountering a life-giving theology; The mission-forged church: participating in the mission of God; The Christ-centered church: following the Messiah and his eschatological mission; The spirit-empowered church: responding to the spirit's power and presence; The Trinity-imaging Church: Reflecting Trinitarian Communion and mission; The courageous and future church: Being salt, light and a city
N2  - "Enormous challenges and opportunities face the Christian church in our globalized, rapidly changing world. It is becoming increasingly clear that the church and its leaders need a missional self-understanding. In this volume, Graham Hill asks: "What does it mean for the church to be truly missional?" This book outlines the thought of twelve leading thinkers, and puts their thinking into conversation with a missional understanding of the church. Most of the missional literature of the past twenty years is practical, telling us how to be a missional church, rather than why certain theological themes compel the church toward a missional self-understanding and existence. This book takes a different approach. It outlines a basic missional understanding of the church by engaging theology and Scripture. It examines some of the key theological themes that are foundational for a missional church, and does this in conversation with twelve leading thinkers. This book provides indispensable foundations for a Christ-centered, gospel-shaped, theologically informed, and systematic missional view of the church."--Publisher's description
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