Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory

Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory
ISBN-10
1441242147
ISBN-13
9781441242143
Category
Religion
Pages
464
Language
English
Published
2013-09-15
Publisher
Baker Academic
Author
Scott W. Sunquist

Description

This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today. Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations.

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