A Church Drawing Near
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A Church Drawing Near

Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Church Drawing Near

Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture

About this book

The book begins by defining the core tasks (or mission) of the Church in biblical and theological terms, and then asks how these tasks can best be carried out in the conditions of modernity and post-modernity.Paul Avis describes and evaluates contemporary expressions of spirituality, drawing on many empirical studies; the functions of the Church's 'occasional offices' or rites of passage; the ways in which the Church and its ministers can engage constructively with the community and with civil society; the pastoral method in mission and its practical, policy consequences. Throughout the book Avis urges the imperative for the Church and its ministers to break out from the privatization of Christian values into full participation in contemporary social issues and public life.This book is an authoritative and interdisciplinary study of theology and practice: a much-needed applied theology of mission and ministry for today.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780567089687
eBook ISBN
9780567424921
Edition
1
Subtopic
Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Beyond The Privatization of Faith
  6. 2 For the Healing of the Nations
  7. 3 Modernity and Secularization
  8. 4 Post-modernity and Fragmentation
  9. 5 Spirituality and Mission
  10. 6 Transformations of Being
  11. 7 The Cross in the Community
  12. 8 The Primacy of the Pastoral
  13. References
  14. Index of Subjects
  15. Index of Names