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Forming Leaders for the Public Church
Vocation in Twenty-First Century Societies
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Forming Leaders for the Public Church
Vocation in Twenty-First Century Societies
About this book
These challenging times demand that Christian churches and their leaders faithfully and effectively address diverse global situations with Gospel-rooted compassion and justice. These essays argue that public theology provides the trinitarian theological framework which fuels wise and compassionate public participation in God's mission within the world today. Public church leaders from the Global South and Global North join their voices to explore the global implications of public theology within unique situational particularities. Their essays are principally based on the public theology and theological commitments of Gary M. Simpson, Lutheran pastor and systematic theologian. Simpson's public theology is an intersection of Lutheran theology, post-colonial approaches to missiology, the growing field of congregational studies, and the Civil Society turn in Critical Social Theory. Expanding on various aspects of Simpson's public theology, these essays provide a glimpse of newly-emerging global public theology with leadership implications for twenty-first century contexts.
This book calls the church to bear today's multi-dimensional crises with courage, mutuality and cooperation. Congregations who seek to participate in God's mission by confronting these challenging realities will find encouragement through the theological reflections, first-hand experiences, and innovative public leadership narrated in these essays.
This book calls the church to bear today's multi-dimensional crises with courage, mutuality and cooperation. Congregations who seek to participate in God's mission by confronting these challenging realities will find encouragement through the theological reflections, first-hand experiences, and innovative public leadership narrated in these essays.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Christian Mission
- Chapter 1: Implication of the Trinitarian Vision for Mission in the 21st Century
- Chapter 2: What Can the West Learn from the Rest? : Nurturing the Culture of Global Conversation
- Chapter 3: The Commonplace Congregation
- Chapter 4: Turning Outward: One Moravianās Journey from Pietist Quietism to Public Theologian
- Chapter 5: Giving Them a Fair Shot: Musings on an Evangelical Reading of āPreferential Option for the Poorā
- Chapter 6: Love Actually
- Part II: Public Vocation
- Chapter 7: Civil Society and the Church in Kenya as a Public Moral Companion
- Chapter 8: Late Reformation Lutheran Preaching on the Legitimacy, Duties, and Responsibilities of Civil Authorities
- Chapter 9: Teaching Solidarity in Civil Society for Love of Neighbor
- Chapter 10: The Vocation of the Local Congregation as Public Companion
- Chapter 11: Pandemics are Terrible Things : A Theology of Promise for a Missional Church Emerging
- Part III: Christian Leadership
- Chapter 12: Public Leadership Across Cultures: Godās Transforming Power for Mutual Governance
- Chapter 13: Worldly Spirituality for a Missional Church
- Chapter 14: Is Anybody Listening?: An Analysis of the Role of Bishops as Adaptive Leaders and Public Theologians in a Time of Crisis
- Chapter 15: No Patiency, No Promise: Missional Warrants toward a Public Theology of Listening
- Chapter 16: A Missional, Open, and Relational System for Faith Formation in the Local Congregation
- Epilogue I: Reflection about Professor Gary Simpson
- Epilogue II: Gary M. Simpson: A Fruitful Vocation
- Afterword
- About the Editors and Contributors