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A rigorous and imaginative work that seeks to develop a theology of mission from a Pentecostal perspective for today's pluralistic, post-colonial world.
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices and academic/theological impulses.
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices and academic/theological impulses.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 292
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
30 April 2015
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780227175323
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, Theology, Religious mission and Religious Conversion
This book would valuably serve studies of Christian mission to local and global communities.
— Craig Stephans
— Craig Stephans
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I – Reluctant Missiology: Indirect Missiological Reflection
1. Going Where the Spirit Goes …: Engaging the Spirit(s) in J.C. Ma’s Pneumatological Missiology
2. “As the Spirit Gives Utterance …”: Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism, and the Wider Oekumene
3. A P(new)matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World
Part II – Pentecostal Missiology: Pragmatic Mission Theology
4. The Spirit of Hospitality: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Performative Theology of Interreligious Encounter
5. Missiology and the Interreligious Encounter (with Tony Richie)
6. From Demonization to Kin-domization: The Witness of the Spirit and the Renewal of Missions in a Pluralistic World
Part III – North American Missiology: Theology of Mission Post-Christendom
7. The Missiology of Jamestown 1607-2007 and Beyond: Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Mission in North America
8. The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the USA: Reflections on Christian Practices
9. The Church and Mission Theology in a Post-Constantinian Era: Soundings from the Anglo-American Frontier
Part IV – Systematic Missiology: Notes for a Christian Missiological Theology
10. Primed for the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Missio Spiritus
11. Christological Constants in Shifting Contexts: Jesus Christ and the Missio Spiritus in a Pluralistic World
12. God, Christ, Spirit: Christian Pluralism and Evangelical Mission in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion – Christian Mission Theology: Toward a Pneumato-Missiological Praxis for the Third Millennium
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Subject Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I – Reluctant Missiology: Indirect Missiological Reflection
1. Going Where the Spirit Goes …: Engaging the Spirit(s) in J.C. Ma’s Pneumatological Missiology
2. “As the Spirit Gives Utterance …”: Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism, and the Wider Oekumene
3. A P(new)matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World
Part II – Pentecostal Missiology: Pragmatic Mission Theology
4. The Spirit of Hospitality: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Performative Theology of Interreligious Encounter
5. Missiology and the Interreligious Encounter (with Tony Richie)
6. From Demonization to Kin-domization: The Witness of the Spirit and the Renewal of Missions in a Pluralistic World
Part III – North American Missiology: Theology of Mission Post-Christendom
7. The Missiology of Jamestown 1607-2007 and Beyond: Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Mission in North America
8. The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the USA: Reflections on Christian Practices
9. The Church and Mission Theology in a Post-Constantinian Era: Soundings from the Anglo-American Frontier
Part IV – Systematic Missiology: Notes for a Christian Missiological Theology
10. Primed for the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Missio Spiritus
11. Christological Constants in Shifting Contexts: Jesus Christ and the Missio Spiritus in a Pluralistic World
12. God, Christ, Spirit: Christian Pluralism and Evangelical Mission in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion – Christian Mission Theology: Toward a Pneumato-Missiological Praxis for the Third Millennium
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Subject Index