Research Catalog

Title

Hope for the world : mission in a global context : papers from the Campbell Seminar / edited by Walter Brueggemann.

Author

Campbell Seminar (2000 : Columbia Theological Seminary)

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Brueggemann, Walter

Description

177 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of essays on global evangelical ministries that provide differing perspectives on Christian mission work.

Subject

Missions > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Missional questions in a fresh context / Walter Brueggemann -- Hope from old sources for a new century : a consensus paper -- Atlanta as church context / Joanna Adams -- South Africa and the confession of Belhar : a contemporary confessing journey toward missions / H. Russel Botman -- The Canadian context / Douglas John Hall -- Prophecy and servanthood in the South / James S. Lowry -- An Asian context / Damayanthi M. A. Niles -- The Cuban church in socialism / Ofelia Ortega -- Church in the context of Central Europe / Janos Pasztor -- The totalizing context of production and consumption / Walter Brueggemann -- Hope as the intractable resolve of the Spirit / Joanna Adams -- Hope as the coming reign of God / H. Russel Botman -- Despair as pervasive ailment / Douglas John Hall -- The Bible as scripted hope / James S. Lowry -- A common hope is always context-specific / Damayanthi M. A. Niles -- Revolutionary hope in the church after Christendom / Ofelia Ortega -- God's mission taken up as the mission of the church / Janos Pasztor -- Communities of hope midst engines for despair / Walter Brueggemann.

ISBN

066422461X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001026339

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library