Reimagining God and mission : perspectives from Australia - Langmead, Ross. (Hindmarsh, S. Aust. : ATF Press, 2007)
Introduction. Reimagining God and Mission in Australia / Ross Langmead -- I. Reimagining God. 1. Reimaging God and mission / Stephen Bevans -- II. Context. 2. Religious trends in Australia / Philip J. Hughes -- 3. What is religion for? Drawing out the sacred in secular times / David Tacey -- III. Church and mission. 4. The missional-incarnational impulse / Alan Hirsch -- 5. The public comeback of God / Clive Pearson -- 6. Walking in the resurrection : an Anabaptist approach to mission in Australia / Mark S. Hurst -- 7. Four shifts for mission / D. Paul Dalzell -- 8. Exploring indigenous Christianity / Lorraine Erlandson, Joy Sandefur -- 9. Mission as hospitality in multicultural Australia / Darren Cronshaw -- 10. The encounter of missionary Christianity and missionary Islam with Australian secular society / Frank Purcell -- 11. The gospel and sea change/ Tree change cultures / Wendy Snook -- 12. The wheel of life : applying contextual missionary principles to new spirituality / Peter Wilson, Jill McCoy -- 13. Community and spirit : changing approaches to urban mission / Colin Scott -- 14. IV. Educating for mission. 15. Educating for contextual mission / Maryanne Confoy -- 16. Context training for reimagining God and Mission: a case study from South Australia / David Turnbull.
"[The] chapters had their origins as papers given at the Australian Missiology Conference held in Melbourne from 26 to 30 September 2005, some as plenary presentations and some as workshop papers"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Missions -- Australia; Missions -- Theory; Evangelistic work -- Philosophy; Multiculturalism -- Australia -- Religious aspects; Christianity and culture