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Confident witness--changing world : rediscovering the Gospel in North America
Title:
Confident witness--changing world : rediscovering the Gospel in North America
Author:
Van Gelder, Craig.
Publication Information:
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xvii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Proceedings of a conference held in 1996.
Language:
English
Contents:
Missionary location of the North American churches / Wearing different hats: Christian living in a fragmented world / Gospel in a digital age / Reading postmodern culture through the medium of movies / Metamorphosis: from Christendom to diaspora / Cathedrals of power: engaging the powers in urban North America

Faith twisted by culture: syncretism in North American Christianity / Strangers but not strange: a new mission situation for the church (1 Peter 1:1-2 and 17-25) / Hearing the gospel again, for the first time / Living between gospel and context: models for a missional church in North America

Preaching to postmodern people / Hearing the gospel with Asian-American ears / Witness to the gospel and refounding the church / Witness in the midst of religious plurality: the model of E. Stanley Jones / Prophetic voice of poverty / Gifts from the global church

Church in a postmodern context / Covenant community: a practical approach to the renewal of the church / Reaching out without dumbing down: a theology of worship for the church in postmodern times / Riding the waves of change: how to facilitate change toward a missionary identity / People of God as a hermeneutic of the gospel
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ISBN:
9780802846556
Format :
Book