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Monday September 10, 2007 ~ 3 Comments
Well, I am not very good at getting my "Meanings of Missional" series out on Monday. My new post is done, but I am waiting to get a couple of quotes confirmed. So, as soon as I hear back, I will post it... hopefully very soon. In the meantime... let me share about an upcoming project. I think it is a good thing to understand and engage popular culture and practical ministry. I talk a lot about biblical fidelity, cultural relevance, local church ministry, and leadership. And I try to write some things to help pastors and leaders. But, I also think it is a good thing to engage in scholarly discussion of the issues that undergird such conversations. As such, I am co-editing a forthcoming missiology book with David Hesselgrave. It will be a missions "issues" book, looking at hot topics from multiple angles, and intended for people thinking through God's mission, missions, contextualization, and the future, In other words, it is an "issues" book to help students, pastors, and missiologists wrestle through important subjects. The tentative title is Mission: God's Initiative in the World. Mission: God's Initiative in the World Co-editors: Essay 1: Mission Described and Defined By Chuck Van Engen, Arthur F. Glasser Professor of Biblical Theology of Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary Respondents: Paul Hiebert, Distinguished Professor of Mission and Anthropology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Respondents: Essay 3: The Future of Christian Mission Ralph Winter, Founder and President, US Center for World Mission, Pasadena CA Respondents: David and I will end each section responding to the essays / respondents and then adding a concluding chapter. This was Paul Hiebert's final written contribution to missiology, so we are both honored and humbled that he is a part. Posted on September 10, 2007 at 10:13 PM ~ 3 Comments Tagged with: hesselgrave, missiology, missional, missions Subscribe via RSS or Follow us on Twitter
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Wow, this sounds excellent.
Ed,
Great line-up of contributors! I really look forward to reading this book. Who is the publisher and when will it be released?
P.S. Plummer's book is in the mail. ;)
Some of the same material is explored in an Intro to Missions textbook, "Discovering Missions," co-authored by Chuck Gailey and myself, that is hot off the press at Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City. There is a publisher's flyer about it at: http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/discover.pdf
Here are a couple of things some missions leaders are saying about the book:
"....new vistas of mission thinking." David Hesselgrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
"....should become a standard text for academic mission studies programs and missionary training centers." Kenneth Gill, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College
While the book lists for $34.99 from the publisher, Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, it is available at a discount on such sites as Amazon.com