TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lord,Andy
TI  - Network Church: a Pentecostal Ecclesiology Shaped by Mission
T2  - Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies
SN  - 9789004225480 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BV600.3 
U1  - 230.994 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Church
KW  - Pentecostal churches
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Mission of the church
KW  - Missions
KW  - Theory
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Network Church; Copyright; Content; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Pentecostal Identity; 1.2 Importance of Mission; 1.3 Systematic Theology; 1.3.1 Systematic Theology as a Mix of Conversations; 1.3.2 Issues in Ecclesiology; 1.3.3 Pentecostal Systematic Theology; 1.4 Summary; 2 Mission and Methodology; 2.1 The Church in Mission; 2.2 Introduction to the Methodology of Amos Yong; 2.3 Spirit-driven and Trinitarian Methodology; 2.4 Metaphysical Foundations; 2.5 Methodology Revisited; 2.6 Critical Reflections on the Methodology; 2.7 Methodology for this Project; 2.8 Summary; 3 Pentecostal Ecclesiology3.1 Early Pentecostal Ecclesiology; 3.2 Contemporary Pentecostal Ecclesiologies; 3.2.1 Steven Land; 3.2.2 Clark Pinnock; 3.2.3 Miroslav Volf; 3.2.4 Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen; 3.2.5 Amos Yong; 3.2.6 Simon Chan; 3.2.7 Frank Macchia; 3.2.8 Other Pentecostal Scholars; 3.3 Evaluation of Pentecostal Ecclesiology; 3.3.1 Experience of the Spirit; 3.3.2 Rooted in the Scriptures; 3.3.3 Engaging with the Theological Community; 3.4 Summary; 4 Trinitarian Network Church; 4.1 Discerning Networks in Practice; 4.1.1 Pentecostal Experience of Networks; 4.1.2 Basic Understanding of Networks4.2 Networks in the Early Church; 4.2.1 Paul and the Formation of Networks; 4.2.2 Multiple Connected Networks; 4.2.3 Networks in Church and World; 4.3 Trinitarian Ecclesiology and Mission; 4.3.1 Latin and Social Trinitarianism; 4.3.2 Trinitarian Thinking and Mission/Structures; 4.3.3 Pentecostal Trinitarian Model; 4.3.4 The Trinity and the World; 4.4 Network Summary; 4.5 Summary; 5 Network Catholicity; 5.1 Catholicity and Unity; 5.2 Catholicity of Shared Ecclesial Essence; 5.2.1 Trinitarian Essence; 5.2.2 Sacramental Events; 5.3 Church marked by Spirit Baptism5.4 Movements towards Unity; 5.5 Summary; 6 Network Partnership; 6.1 Discerning the Spirit in Movements of Partnership; 6.1.1 Partnership within Pentecostalism; 6.1.2 Partnership within the Ecumenical Movement; 6.1.3 Discerning Partnership; 6.2 Biblical Partnership; 6.3 Partnership Networks; 6.4 Responsibility and Authority; 6.5 Summary; 7 Engaging the World; 7.1 Mission and Contextualisation; 7.2 Pentecostal World Engagement; 7.2.1 Pentecostal Experience of the World; 7.2.2 The Narrative of Acts and the World; 7.2.3 Pentecostal Ecclesiology and the World; 7.2.4 Discernment and Mission7.3 Issues of Power and Place; 7.4 Practice of Contextualisation; 7.4.1 Pentecostal Hospitality; 7.4.2 Trialectic of Contextualisation; 7.5 Summary; 8 Conclusion; 8.1 Pentecostal Studies; 8.2 Mission Studies; 8.3 Systematic Theology; 8.4 Biblical Studies; 8.5 Church Practice; 8.6 Summary; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Drawing on pentecostal experience of growing church networks, this book offers a systematic ecclesiology that provides a fresh approach to catholicity, church structures, partnership and contextualisation
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