| Hope for the World: Mission in a Global Context Contributor(s): Brueggemann, Walter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 066422461X ISBN-13: 9780664224615 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2001 Annotation: By rejecting older, typically Eurocentric patterns of missions, this volume courageously addresses the new, global context for missions, evangelism, and education. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Religion | Christian Theology - Ethics - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology |
| Dewey: 266 |
| LCCN: 2001026339 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hope for the World represents a new resolve and commitment to the global context for the ministry of the church. Missions, evangelism, and theological education too often seem ill prepared to face the despair commonly shared by both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The older patterns of ministry, still unwittingly triumphalistic, cannot cope with the deeply rooted spiritual crisis that is manifested economically, politically, and militarily in the globalization of wealth. The essays in this volume, by respecting the specific contexts of doing ministry, hold out hope as an evangelical antidote to despair. The theologies of hope mapped out here demand that the church live out a vulnerability shaped by the truth of the cross. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brueggemann, Walter: - Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament, and is the author of numerous books, including Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes. |