{"product_id":"seeking-church-emerging-witnesses-to-the-kingdom-9780830851058","title":"Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew expressions of church that are proliferating among Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and other non-Christian religious communities, including so-called insider movements, have raised intense discussion in missiological circles.\u003c\/b\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSeeking Church\u003c\/i\u003e, Darren Duerksen and William Dyrness address these issues by exploring how \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e Christian movements have been and are engaged in a \"reverse hermeneutic,\" where the gospel is read and interpreted through existing cultural and religious norms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuerksen and Dyrness draw on the growing social-scientific work on emergent theory--the concept that social communities arise over time in ways that reflect specific historical and cultural dynamics. This is a missiological process, they argue, in which God has always worked through people and their culture to shape his witness in the world. They illustrate emergent theory through historical and contemporary case studies and consider the church's contextualized nature by exploring biblical models of the church, worship practices as emergent, and ecclesial markers that identify emerging churches and their distinctive witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor missiologists, theologians, practitioners, and all who ponder the challenge and opportunities of mission among other religious communities, \u003ci\u003eSeeking Church\u003c\/i\u003e offers a multidisciplinary conceptual framework with which to understand the global diversity of the body of Christ. The Spirit is constantly drawing people toward God's community, causing new expressions of church to emerge and thus displaying new facets of his work and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMissiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e IVP Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780830851058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Darren T. Duerksen,William A. Dyrness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181266792629,"sku":"9780830851058","price":28.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9de0cd78-6901-4961-b1bc-975470fc54af.jpg?v=1768922426","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seeking-church-emerging-witnesses-to-the-kingdom-9780830851058","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}