Ecclesial Futures Volume 1, Issue 1 (June 2020)

Volume editor

Nigel Rooms

Volume editor

Steve Taylor

Synopsis

Ecclesial Futures is an international, ecumenical peer-reviewed journal. It publishes high-quality, original research and theological reflection on the development and transformation of local Christian communities and the systems that support them as they join in the mission of God in the world.

Ecclesial Futures, as a completely new journal in 2020 brings together, at least in the initial phases, two groups of scholar-practitioners.

The first is a self-organizing and invitation-only annual conference of around 20-30 people who meet together under the banner of The International Research Consortium: Researching Missional Congregations (IRC). They include people from the USA, Europe, Australia and Africa and cross several denominations, mainly Protestant. They meet to share existing research projects and form a learning community around how local churches can be transformed by working with the theological concept of the Missio Dei.

The second is a “Study Group” called “Christian Communities and Mission” within the International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS) https://missionstudies.org/ which is the internationally recognized association for mission studies. It has a large, diverse membership and is truly global and ecumenical combining Mainline Protestant, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic and Orthodox participants.

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Chapters

Editorial

Nigel Rooms
Chapter 1: The Missio Dei as Flourishing Life

Nelus Niemandt
Chapter 2: Towards the Acceptance of Diversity: A Brief History of the Mixed Economy of Church and Continental European Adaptations

Sabrina Müller
Chapter 3: Stories that Shape an Understanding of God’s Mission in the World: Visionary Leadership in the ELCA

Kristine Stache
Chapter 4: Missiological Perspectives from Germany: Innovation and Mission in Rural Areas

Michael Herbst, Patrick Todjeras
Chapter 5: Free for Mission: Missional Church and Ethnographic Fieldwork

Scott J. Hagley
Book Review: Church in Life: Innovation, Mission, and Ecclesiology
Moynagh, Michael. 2017. London: SCM Press. ISBN: 978–0-334–05451-1

Patrick Todjeras
Book Review: Practices for the Refounding of God’s People: The Missional Challenge of the West
Roxburgh, Alan J., and Robinson Martin. 2018. New York: Church Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-8192-3384-4

Christopher B. James
Book Review: Pilgrims and Priests: Christian Mission in a Post-Christian Society
Paas, Stefan. 2019. London: SCM Press. ISBN: 978–0-3340–05877-9

Patrick Todjeras
Book Review: Making is Connecting: The Social Power of Creativity, from Craft and Knitting to Digital everything
Gauntlett, David. 2018. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN: 978-1-5095-1347-5

Steve Taylor

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