Transcending Mission (Paperback)

Michael W. Stroope

ISBN 10: 1783595523 / ISBN 13: 9781783595525

Published by Inter-Varsity Press, Nottingham, 2017

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Paperback. Whether you are thinking of stepping out in your community, or in the world at large, Transcending Mission will provide you with the theology to better guide you on your journey. Its thorough approach and critical eye will help you go go out equipped, ready to serve and ready to share God with people yet to discover him.Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the story of apostles and bishops and monks as missionaries, we think we have grasped the true thread of Christian history.But what about those odd shapes, those unsettling gaps and creases in the historical record? Is the language of mission so clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Is the trajectory of mission really so explicit from the early church to the present? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past?As with every reigning paradigm, there comes a point when enough questions surface to beg for a close and critical look, even when it may seem transgressive to do so. In this study of the language of mission - its origin, development, and application--Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. There is both surprise and hope in this tale. And perhaps the beginnings of a new conversation. An in-depth examination of the origins and development of the language and understanding of Christian mission Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transcending Mission (Paperback)
• Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press, Nottingham
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783595523
• ISBN 13: 9781783595525
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Today the language of mission is in disarray. Where do the language and idea of 'mission' come from? Do they truly have precedence in the early centuries of the church? Michael Stroope investigates these questions and shows how the language of mission is a modern phenomenon that shaped a 'grand narrative' of mission. He then offers a way forward.