Ecclesial Futures Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2020)

Volume editor

Steve Taylor

Volume editor

Nigel Rooms

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

Steve Taylor
Chapter 1: Our Agricultural Krísis: Sketches of a Missional Response

Matthew Anslow
Chapter 2: A Prisoner of His Own Creative Imagination: A Decolonial Discourse with David Bosch’s Missional View of a Church as an Alternative Community

Thinandavha Derrick Mashau
Chapter 3: A Contextual Analysis of Onnuri Church’s: “Love Sonata” “Cultural Evangelism Gatherings” in Japan

J. Nelson Jennings
Chapter 4: The Missio Dei Embodied in Local Community Ministry in Scotland

Mark Johanston, Steve Taylor
Chapter 5: Dreams and Visions: Critical Realism, Practical Theology and the Spiritual Experiences of Pioneers Discerning the Missio Dei

Paul Bradbury
Book Review: When the World Is Changing: A Roundtable Review of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil; How Change Comes to Your Church; and First Expressions

Dustin D. Benac
Book Review: James, Christopher B. 2018. Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press

Kristine Stache
Book Review: Campbell, Douglas A. 2020. Pauline Dogmatics. The Triumph of God’s Love. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Martin Reppenhagen

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