Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging PluralityViggo Mortensen, Andreas Osterund Nielsen IPresents new visions for the future of missions in a global society In June of 1910, delegates gathered in Edinburgh for the first World Missionary Conference. One hundred years later, the 2010 Church and Mission in a Multireligious Third Millennium conference sought to reconcile a century of seismic shifts in the worldwide landscape of the church with its ongoing mandate to "make disciples of all nations." Arising out of that recent conference, Walk Humbly with the Lord presents a broad, multinational spectrum of contemporary approaches to both theology and missiology. Recognizing that the old Western notion of Christendom -- which formed the cultural backdrop of Edinburgh 1910 -- is now long obsolete, the book's twenty-seven forward-thinking contributors respond to globalization and the enormous growth of religious pluralism worldwide, offering reflections on the future of missiology and the relationship of church and mission. Together they speculate about the possible shape of Christianity in a multireligious age, as God works out new and unforeseen schemes in the reconciliation of the world. Contributors:
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Contents
Christianity in Contexts of Plurality | 4 |
Trends Revealed | 27 |
of a World Religion | 35 |
Strategic Reflections Coming Out of the Present | 43 |
The Church Is Mission | 53 |
Invitation to Community | 70 |
The Church in a Multireligious Europe | 85 |
Protestant Liberalism and | 97 |
The Missional Church and Homo Areligiosus | 167 |
A Minority Community of Equality and Difference | 184 |
To Be a Christian Minority | 205 |
The Future of Missiologies | 217 |
Missiology as Vocation | 230 |
Understanding Reality | 238 |
Missional Spirituality in the Contemporary World | 247 |
A Missiology | 265 |
The Ecclesiality of Mission in the Context of Empire | 105 |
The Canadian Church | 113 |
Transforming Ecclesiologies in a Multireligious World | 135 |
Will Fresh Expressions | 150 |
Imaginative Practices and | 278 |
Theological Formation for Missional Practice | 307 |
Contributors | 313 |
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