Mission on the Road to Emmaus

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Aimed at scholars and students of missiology, this book consider missions through the lens of ‘prophetic dialogue'. The authors try to to bring a fresh approach to the subject of mission– introducing some newer themes (identity, creation, migration) and offering a different perspective on some older themes by grouping them in this way.

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334049111
• Langue: English

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Mission on the Road to Emmaus
Constants, Context and Prophetic Dialogue
Edited by
Cathy Ross and Stephen B. Bevans






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The poem ‘Beginners’ by Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon , is copyright © 1982 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Eucharistic prayer, A New Zealand Prayer Book, He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa , Auckland: William Collins, 1989. Used by permission.
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Mission as Prophetic Dialogue – Stephen B. Bevans and Cathy Ross
Part 1: Christology: The Mission of Jesus as Prophetic Dialogue
1. Prophetic Christology in the New Testament – vanThanh Nguyen
2. Christological Constants in Shifting Contexts: Jesus Christ, Prophetic Dialogue and the Missio Spiritus in a Pluralistic World – Amos Yong
3. Jesus, Mission and the Holy Spirit in Luke–Acts: Dialogue, Prophecy and Life – Kirsteen Kim
Part 2: Ecclesiology: The Mission of the Church as Prophetic Dialogue
4. Mission, Ecclesiology and Migration – Emma Wild-Wood
5. Hospitality: The Church as ‘A Mother with an Open Heart’ – Cathy Ross
Part 3: Eschatology: Our Future in the Light of the Planet
6. The Church’s Mission of Ecojustice: A Prophetic Dialogue Approach – Dawn Nothwehr
7. ‘ Continents of moil and misery’: Mission, Justice and Prophetic Dialogue – Tim Naish
Part 4: Soteriology: Salvation as Prophetic Dialogue
8. Reconciliation and Prophetic Dialogue – Robert Schreiter
9. Wounded Communion: Prophetic Dialogue and Salvation in Trinitarian Perspective – S. Mark Heim
Part 5: Anthropology: Mission as What it Means to be Human
10. Contemporary Women’s Contributions to Prophetic Dialogue as Mission – Frances S. Adeney
11. An Anthropology of Prophetic Dialogue: Rooted in Hope – Maria Cimperman
12. Prophetic Dialogue and the Human Condition – Joe Kapolyo
Part 6: Culture: Mission and Culture in Prophetic Dialogue
13. Prophetic Dialogue and Contemporary Culture – Jonny Baker
14. Prophetic Dialogue and Interculturality – Roger Schroeder
15. Contextual Theology and Prophetic Dialogue – Stephen B. Bevans

Bibliography




Contributors
Frances S. Adeney is the William A. Benfield Jr Professor Emerita of Evangelism and Global Mission at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Adeney’s interest in Christian mission focuses on the interstices between culture and religions and a focus on giftive mission – mission as a giving and receiving of gifts. Her books include Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion (2003), Christianity and Human Rights: Ideas and Issues (2007), Christianity Encountering World Religions (2009) and Graceful Evangelism: Christian Witness in a Complex World (2010).
Jonny Baker is Mission Education Director for the Church Mission Society, Britain. He connects with pioneers, leaders who have the gift of not fitting in as they are called by God to new forms of mission and ministry often beyond the edges of the Church. The main focus of his work in the last few years has been setting up and leading the innovative Pioneer Mission Leadership Training.
Stephen Bevans is a Roman Catholic priest in the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He has worked as a missionary to the Philippines (1972–81) and has taught and lectured in many places throughout the world. He is the author of Models of Contextual Theology (1992/2002), An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective (2009) and, with Roger P. Schroeder, Constants in Context (2004) and Prophetic Dialogue (2011).
Maria Cimperman RSCJ, is Visiting Associate Professor of Ethics at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Working at the intersection of social ethics, moral theology and spirituality, Maria is completing a manuscript on Social Analysis for the 21st Century: Faith in Action for a Socially Conscious Spirituality (2015). She also presents and writes on topics in consecrated religious life.
S. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, MA. He is deeply involved in issues of religious pluralism, Christian ecumenism and the relation of theology and science. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion (1995), The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (2001) and Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (2006) . He is a member of the American Theological Society and has received both a Pew Evangelical Scholars Research Fellowship and a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology. He is an ordained American Baptist minister.
Joe Kapolyo is the Lead Minister at Edmonton Baptist Church in north London. He is a trustee and member of the National Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. He has been Principal of All Nations Christian College and worked with the Scripture Union in Zambia (1976–84) before ordination in 1985.
Kirsteen Kim is Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Leeds Trinity University. She is the author of several books, including Joining in with the Spirit: Connecting World Church and Local Mission (2012) and A History of Korean Christianity (2014). She is currently the editor of Mission Studies , the journal of the International Association for Mission Studies.
Tim Naish is Dean of the Oxford Ministry Course and Lecturer in Missiology at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. Between 1980 and 2000 he was a mission partner of the Church Mission Society in South India, England, Zaire and Uganda. Among his interests are the interface of missiology with systematic theology and contemporary poetry in relation to mission.
Dawn M. Nothwehr OSF, is a member of the Sisters of St Francis, Rochester, MN (Profession of Life Vows, 1984). She is currently Professor of Catholic Theological Ethics at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, where she holds The Erica and Harry John Family Endowed Chair in Catholic Ethics. Nothwehr’s research focuses on global climate change, environmental ethics and ecotheology. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles, as well as several books, including: Ecological Footprints: An Essential Franciscan Guide to Sustainable Living (2012).
Cathy Ross is Tutor in Contextual Theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Lecturer in Mission at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She also teaches Pioneer Leaders at the Church Mission Society, Britain. Her recent publications include Mission in the 21st Century, Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission (ed. with Andrew Walls, 2008), Life-Widening Mission: Global Anglican Perspectives (2012) and Mission in Context (with John Corrie, 2012). Her research interests are in the areas of contextual theologies, World Christianity, feminist theologies and hospitality.
Robert Schreiter holds the Vatican Council II Professorship in Theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He has written widely on mission, inculturation and reconciliation. His most recent book (with Knud Jorgensen) is Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation (2013).
Roger Schroeder is Professor of Intercultural Studies and Ministry and holder of the Bishop Francis X. Ford, MM, Chair of Catholic Missiology at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He has authored What is the Mission of the Church? (2008) and co-authored with Stephen Bevans, Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today (2004) and Prophetic Dialogue: Reflections on Christian Mission Today (2011). Schroeder is a past president of the American Society of Missiology and is serving his third three-year term as the International Coordinator of Anthropos Institute. He is a member of Catholic missionary order of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and worked for six years in Papua New Guinea.
vanThanh Nguyen SVD is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies and Director of the Master of Divinity Program at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the International Association of Mission Studies . He is the