Theology of mission : a believers church perspective
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Theology of mission : a believers church perspective
Inter Varsity Press, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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John Howard Yoder, author of The Politics of Jesus (1972), was best known for his writing and teaching on Christian pacifism. The material in Theology of Mission shows he was a profound missiologist as well. Working from a believers or free church perspective, Yoder effortlessly weaves together biblical, theological, practical and interreligious reflections to think about mission beyond Christendom.
Along the way he traces the developments in the theology of mission and argues for an understanding of the church that is not merely a corrective but a genuine alternative. The church is missionary by nature, called to bear witness to the coming kingdom, because it serves the missionary God of the Bible "who comes, who takes the initiative, who reaches across whatever it is that separates us."
Decades later, these lectures read just as fresh and relevant as if they were written today. As the editors state in their preface, "those who have followed Yoder?s work over the years will find this book to be some of his most striking unpublished material since The Politics of Jesus." Not just a volume for Yoder enthusiasts, Theology of Mission is for anyone who cares about the mission of the church today. It only reinforces Yoder's status as one of the most important and prophetic theologians of the last century.
Table of Contents
Editors' Preface, by Gayle Gerber Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker
Introduction: John Howard Yoder's Mission Theology: Context and Contribution, by Wilbert Shenk
Yoder's Introduction To The Topic
1. The Prophets: Israel and the Nations
2. Jesus's Public Ministry and the Nations
3. The Great Commission and Acts
4. The Ministry of Paul in Salvation History
5. Other Texts and the New Testament's Theology of Mission
6. Mission and Systematic Theology
7. Church Types and Mission: A Radical Reformation Perspective
8. Pietist Perspective on Mission
9. The Church as Missionary
10. The Church as Responsible
11. The Church as Local
12. The Church as Laity
13. Ministry in a Missionary Context
14. People Movements and the Free Church
15. Salvation is Historical
16. Salvation is for the World
17. Message and Medium: Presence
18. Message and Medium: Servanthood
19. Theology of Religions: Particularity and Universalism
20. Radical Reformation Perspectives on Religion
21. Christianity and Other Faiths
22. The Missionary Challenge of Non-non-Christian Faiths
23. Judaism as a Non-non-Christian Faith
Afterword: As You Go
Appendix
Subject Index
Name Index
Scripture Index
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