Missional Conversations

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Missional Conversations introduces the reader to key themes in contemporary mission through global conversations between theory and praxis. Exploring emergent themes in missiology, the book takes the form of a conversation between reflective practitioners – both those in academia and with those who are practically engaged.
With contributions from:
Dave Bookless, Amy Ross, Daniel G. Groody CSC, Amy Roche, Mark Poulson, Richard Sudworth, David Barclay, Ash Barker, Stephan de Beer, Elisa Padilla, Berdine van den Toren-Lekkerkerker, Andrea Campanale, Michael Moynagh, Kyama Mugambi, Harvey Kwiyani, Dennis Tongoi, Paul Bickley, Jonny Baker, Ric Stott, Ian Adams

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334057093
• Langue: English

Extrait

Missional Conversations
A Dialogue Between Theory and Praxis in World Mission
Edited by
Cathy Ross and Colin Smith






© Cathy Ross and Colin Smith 2018
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Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Far Off Country Coming Ever Closer (Cathy Ross and Colin Smith)
Part 1: Contexts for Mission
Environment
1. Context or Content? The Place of the Natural Environment in World Mission ( Dave Bookless )
2. Creation Care Around the World: Grounded Engagement ( Amy Ross )
Migration
3. Refugees, Lampedusa and the Eucharist: Reflections on the Mission from ‘Otherness’ to ‘Oneness’ ( Daniel G. Groody CSC )
4. Mission and Migration ( Amy Roche )
Interfaith
5. Being With: A Personal Reflection on Christian Presence and Other Faiths in Southall, West London ( Mark Poulson )
6. Being With: Christian Presence and Other Faiths ( Richard Sudworth )
Economic Disparity
7. Economics and Inequality: A Christian Response ( David Barclay )
8. Economics and Inequality: A Relational Response ( John Wheatley )
Urbanization
9. Klong Toey and Barriers to Transformation in Urban Slum and Informal Settlement Neighbourhoods ( Ash Barker )
10. Urbanity in the Global South and the Future of the Christian Faith: Reflections on Theology and Mission ( Stephan de Beer )
Part 2: Expressions of Mission
Community
11. An Ecosystem Called Community ( Elisa Padilla )
12. Community as Mission ( Berdine van den Toren-Lekkerkerker )
New Forms of Church
13. Church as God’s Conversation Partner with the World ( Andrea Campanale )
14. A Conversational Approach to New Forms of Church ( Michael Moynagh )
Southern Mission Movements
15. Audacity, Intentionality and Hope in the Churches of the Global South ( Kyama Mugambi )
16. Mission in the Global South ( Harvey Kwiyani )
Innovation
17. Bridging the Divide: Mission and Social Innovation in East Africa ( Dennis Tongoi )
18. Treasures Old and New: Social Innovation and the Renewal of Mission ( Paul Bickley )
Imagination
19. I’ll Meet You There: A Conversation on the Meeting Place of Mission and Imagination ( Jonny Baker and Ric Stott )

Epilogue: A Mission Spirituality for Turbulent Times (Ian Adams)

Bibliography




List of Contributors
Ian Adams is a poet, writer, photographer and Anglican priest. He is Mission Spirituality Adviser to the Church Mission Society, Associate at Ridley Hall Cambridge, and a partner in the Beloved Life project. He loves jazz.
Jonny Baker is Director of Mission Education at the Church Mission Society where he founded and leads the pioneer ministry leadership training. He is also a photographer, musician and writer and lover of all things creative and innovative.
David Barclay is a Partner at the Good Faith Partnership, a consultancy based in Westminster that helps leaders in the worlds of faith, politics, business and charity to work better together on common goals. He is also a Fellow of the Centre for Theology & Community where he worked for four years, helping churches to respond to issues of money and debt. He has been a William Leech Fellow of Durham University, and has co-authored For Good: The Church and the Future of Welfare with Sam Wells and Russell Rook.
Ash Barker is a pioneering urban activist, educator and Minister. After 25 years immersed in urban poverty contexts in his native Melbourne and Bangkok’s largest slum, Ash and his family relocated to Winson Green, Birmingham (UK) in 2014. Since then Ash has sought the renewal of this inner-city, multi-racial parish as a Pioneer Minister and established the Newbigin School for Urban Leadership (NewbiginHouse.uk) as “a seedbed for urban change”. Ash is the author of eight books, including Risky Compassion , Slum Life Rising and Make Poverty Personal.
Paul Bickley is Director of Political Programme at Theos. His background is in Parliament and public affairs, and he holds an MLitt from the University of St Andrews’ School of Divinity. Paul is the author of a number of Theos reports focusing on faith-based social action, including The Problem of Proselytism , Doing Good Better: The Case for Faith-Based Social Innovation and, as part of a William Leech Research Fellowship, People, Place and Purpose: Churches and Neighbourhood Resilience in the North East. He also pastors Trinity Vineyard Church in South East London.
Dave Bookless is a Mission Partner with the Church Mission Society and seconded to A Rocha International as Director of Theology. He was born in India, lives in Southall (London), where he is also Vicar of St Mary’s, Norwood Green, has written several books, and has spoken on creation care in many parts of the world.
Andrea Campanale is a Lay Pioneer Minister in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and has been doing outreach to spiritual seekers for over 12 years. She teaches, mentors and networks pioneers nationally, primarily for the Church Mission Society, but also for Methodist Pioneering Pathways and Forge.
Stephan de Beer is Director of the Centre for Contextual Ministry, hosted by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria. He worked for 20 years with an ecumenical inner-city ministry in Pretoria – the Tshwane Leadership Foundation – creating responses to post-apartheid urban realities and rather dramatic social changes. His current research is focusing on homelessness, housing and spatial justice, and the response of faith-based communities. He is also interested in re-imagining curricula for transformational urban theological education.
Daniel Groody CSC is a Catholic Priest and Associate Professor of Theology and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the director of the Global Leadership Institute at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, and has published in the area of theology, spirituality, migration, globalization and refugee issues.
Harvey Kwiyani is a Malawian missiologist currently teaching African theology at Liverpool Hope University. He studies non-Western missionary movements with a particular focus on African Christianity in the Diaspora.
Kyama Mugambi is a lecturer and researcher with the Centre for World Christianity, at the Africa International University, in Nairobi in Kenya. He served as a church minister for 18 years. Until 2016, he was the Director of Mission at the Mavuno Church, working with teams in ten countries – mostly in Africa. His current teaching and research interests revolve around the history, leadership and mission in Urban Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity in Kenya.
Michael Moynagh is based at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is a member of the UK Fresh Expressions team. He has written or been lead author of over 15 books on social issues and new forms of church, including Being Church, Doing Life and Church in Life: Innovation, Mission and Ecclesiology .
Elisa Padilla and her husband are members of the Kairos Community and of La Lucila Baptist Church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have four adult children and are involved in nature conservation, instrument making, engineering and circus arts. Their chapter in this book was a shared endeavour.
Mark Poulson was formerly the Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury and National Inter Religious Affairs Adviser for the Church of England. Prior to this he was Vicar of St John’s Church, Southall Green, in West London, for 11 years. Mark is now Diocesan Coordinator for Presence and Engagement for London based jointly at the Kings Centre Southall in West London and at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Amy Roche is a Mission Partner with the Church Mission Society working in Beirut, serving in lay ministry at the Anglican International Church, Beirut, and volunteer teaching at a local Syrian Refugee Education Centre. She is also researching with women from different cultures interpreting the Bible together, for her doctorate in Theology and Ministry with Durham University.
Amy Ross is a practising environmentalist who has spent time studying global ecotheology and working for various Christian and environmental charities including Cambridge Carbon Foo