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Forming Leaders for the Public Church
Vocation in Twenty-First Century Societies
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2023
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1422-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1423-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
284
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Implication of the Trinitarian Vision for Mission in the 21st Century No access
What Can the West Learn from the Rest? No access
The Commonplace Congregation No access
Turning Outward No access
Giving Them a Fair Shot No access
Love Actually No access
Civil Society and the Church in Kenya as a Public Moral Companion No access
Late Reformation Lutheran Preaching on the Legitimacy, Duties, and Responsibilities of Civil Autho No access
Teaching Solidarity in Civil Society for Love of Neighbor No access
The Vocation of the Local Congregation as Public Companion No access
Pandemics are Terrible Things No access
Public Leadership Across Cultures No access
Worldly Spirituality for a Missional Church No access
Is Anybody Listening? No access
No Patiency, No Promise No access
A Missional, Open, and Relational System for Faith Formation in the Local Congregation No access
Epilogue I No access Pages 259 - 260
Epilogue II No access Pages 261 - 264
Afterword No access Pages 265 - 272
Index No access Pages 273 - 278
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 279 - 284
