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The church between gospel and culture : the emerging mission in North America / edited by George R. Hunsberger and Craig Van Gelder.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, c1996.Description: xix, 369 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802841090
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV 2760 C473 1996
Contents:
Introduction: the church between gospel and culture I. Focusing the mission question The Newbigin Gauntlet: developing a domestic missiology for North America -- Defining the center 0 finding the boundaries: the challenge of re-visioning the church in North America for the 21st century -- II. Assessing our culture A great new fact of our day: America as mission field -- The culture of modernity as a missionary challenge -- From biblical secularity to modern secularism: historical aspects and stages -- Mission in the emerging postmodern condition -- The gospel in our culture: methods of social and cultural analysis -- Symbols become us: toward a missional encounter with our culture through symbolic analysis -- III. Discerning the gospel Christ all in all: the recovery of the gospel for evangelism in the United States -- Ecclesia Crucis: the theologic of Christian awkwardness -- Gospel for American culture: variations on a theme by Newbigin -- Speaking the truth in love: elements of a missional hermeneutic -- Vernacular theology -- "Translatability" in the missional approach of Lamin Sanneh -- IV. Defining the church Acquiring the posture of a missionary church -- Congregations with missions vs. missionary congregations -- Up from the grassroots: the church in transition -- Pastoral role in the missionary congregation -- Sizing up the shape of the church -- A particular people: toward a faithful and effective ecclesiology --
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Introduction: the church between gospel and culture

I. Focusing the mission question
The Newbigin Gauntlet: developing a domestic missiology for North America -- Defining the center 0 finding the boundaries: the challenge of re-visioning the church in North America for the 21st century --

II. Assessing our culture
A great new fact of our day: America as mission field -- The culture of modernity as a missionary challenge -- From biblical secularity to modern secularism: historical aspects and stages -- Mission in the emerging postmodern condition -- The gospel in our culture: methods of social and cultural analysis -- Symbols become us: toward a missional encounter with our culture through symbolic analysis --

III. Discerning the gospel
Christ all in all: the recovery of the gospel for evangelism in the United States -- Ecclesia Crucis: the theologic of Christian awkwardness -- Gospel for American culture: variations on a theme by Newbigin -- Speaking the truth in love: elements of a missional hermeneutic -- Vernacular theology -- "Translatability" in the missional approach of Lamin Sanneh --

IV. Defining the church
Acquiring the posture of a missionary church -- Congregations with missions vs. missionary congregations -- Up from the grassroots: the church in transition -- Pastoral role in the missionary congregation -- Sizing up the shape of the church -- A particular people: toward a faithful and effective ecclesiology --

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