Confident witness--changing world : rediscovering the Gospel in North America / edited by Craig Van Gelder.

Contributor(s):

Van Gelder, Craig [ed.]

Series: The Gospel and our culture seriesPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, c1999.Description: xvii, 313 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cmISBN:

0802846556 (paper : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

266.0097/CON

Contents:

Part 1 : Understanding the North American Context as Mission Field. Missionary location of the North American churches / Richard J. Mouw -- Wearing different hats: Christian living in a fragmented world / Christopher B. Kaiser -- Gospel in a digital age / Robert S. Fortner -- Reading postmodern culture through the medium of movies / Craig Van Gelder.

Part 2 : Understanding the Church in the North American Mission Context. Metamorphosis: from Christendom to diaspora / Douglas John Hall -- Cathedrals of power: engaging the powers in urban North America / Clinton Stockwell -- Faith twisted by culture: syncretism in North American Christianity / Walter C. Hobbs -- Strangers but not strange: a new mission situation for the church (1 Peter 1:1-2 and 17-25) / Dan Devadatta.

Part 3 : Understanding the Gospel in the North American Mission Context. Hearing the gospel again, for the first time / James V. Brownson -- Living between gospel and context: models for a missional church in North America / Stephen Bevans -- Preaching to postmodern people / Lee A. Wyatt -- Hearing the gospel with Asian-American ears / Stanley K. Inouye.

Part 4 : Relating the Gospel to Ministry in the North American Mission Context. Witness to the gospel and refounding the church / William R. Burrows -- Witness in the midst of religious plurality: the model of E. Stanley Jones / Mary Lou Codman-Wilson -- Prophetic voice of poverty / George D. Beukema -- Gifts fron the global church / Isaac K. Fokuo and Patricia Lloyd-Sidle.

Part 4 : Rethinking the Church in the North American Mission Context. Church in a postmodern context / Alan J. Roxburgh -- Covenant community: a practical approach to the renewal of the church / Paul C. Dinolfo -- Reaching out without dumbing down: a theology of worship for the church in postmodern times / Marva J. Dawn -- Riding the waves of change: how to facilitate change toward a missionary identity / Jon M. Huegli. Metamorphosis: from Christendom to diaspora / Douglas John Hall -- Cathedrals of power: engaging the powers in urban North America / Clinton Stockwell -- Faith twisted by culture: syncretism in North American Christianity / Walter C. Hobbs -- Strangers but not strange: a new mission situation for the church (1 Peter 1:1-2 and 17-25) / Dan Devadatta.

Epilogue. People of God as a hermeneutic of the gospel / Mary Jo Leddy.

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Proceedings of a conference held in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1 : Understanding the North American Context as Mission Field.

Missionary location of the North American churches / Richard J. Mouw --
Wearing different hats: Christian living in a fragmented world / Christopher B. Kaiser --
Gospel in a digital age / Robert S. Fortner --
Reading postmodern culture through the medium of movies / Craig Van Gelder.

Part 2 : Understanding the Church in the North American Mission Context.

Metamorphosis: from Christendom to diaspora / Douglas John Hall --
Cathedrals of power: engaging the powers in urban North America / Clinton Stockwell --
Faith twisted by culture: syncretism in North American Christianity / Walter C. Hobbs --
Strangers but not strange: a new mission situation for the church (1 Peter 1:1-2 and 17-25) / Dan Devadatta.

Part 3 : Understanding the Gospel in the North American Mission Context.

Hearing the gospel again, for the first time / James V. Brownson --
Living between gospel and context: models for a missional church in North America / Stephen Bevans --
Preaching to postmodern people / Lee A. Wyatt --
Hearing the gospel with Asian-American ears / Stanley K. Inouye.

Part 4 : Relating the Gospel to Ministry in the North American Mission Context.

Witness to the gospel and refounding the church / William R. Burrows --
Witness in the midst of religious plurality: the model of E. Stanley Jones / Mary Lou Codman-Wilson --
Prophetic voice of poverty / George D. Beukema --
Gifts fron the global church / Isaac K. Fokuo and Patricia Lloyd-Sidle.

Part 4 : Rethinking the Church in the North American Mission Context.

Church in a postmodern context / Alan J. Roxburgh --
Covenant community: a practical approach to the renewal of the church / Paul C. Dinolfo --
Reaching out without dumbing down: a theology of worship for the church in postmodern times / Marva J. Dawn --
Riding the waves of change: how to facilitate change toward a missionary identity / Jon M. Huegli.

Metamorphosis: from Christendom to diaspora / Douglas John Hall --
Cathedrals of power: engaging the powers in urban North America / Clinton Stockwell --
Faith twisted by culture: syncretism in North American Christianity / Walter C. Hobbs --
Strangers but not strange: a new mission situation for the church (1 Peter 1:1-2 and 17-25) / Dan Devadatta.

Epilogue.

People of God as a hermeneutic of the gospel / Mary Jo Leddy.

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