Research Catalog

Title

The church and its mission : a shattering critique from the Third World / Orlando E. Costas.

Author

Costas, Orlando E.

Publication

Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, [1974]

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Details

Description

xviii, 313 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The author answers a crying need for a fresh view of missiology -- a cogent, scholarly, pointed analysis of the stance of the Church today in relation to the execution of the Great Commission. Here is a piercing look at the varied and often conflicting missiological philosophies of the North Atlantic nations. Here is a balanced evaluation of the efforts of evangelicals and ecumenists to find a workable relationship to each other and to the non-Christian world. Here also is a warm Bible-based challenge to the whole Body of Christ and some practical suggestions for the future of world mission.

Subject

• Church
• Missions
• Kirche
• Mission
• Missiologie
• Bevrijdingstheologie
• Missions > Philosophy
• Christian missions > Philosophy
• Developing countries > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. God's Redemptive mission to the world -- The role of the church -- The specific character of this book -- The objective of this book -- The origin of this book -- The tentativeness of this book -- God's mission and the church's nature -- 2. The church's character -- People of God -- Body of Christ -- Temple of the Holy Spirit -- Institution -- 3. The church's calling -- The purpose of the church's calling -- Dimensions of the church's missionary calling -- 4. The church's message -- The gospel as the fulfillment of the Old Testament hope -- The gospel as fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth -- The gospel as praxis -- God's mission and the church's growth -- 5. The imperative of church growth -- The dynamic nature of church growth -- The biblical case for church growth -- The theological rationale for church growth -- 6. The church growth movement -- A theological interpretation of the church as a missionary community -- A sociotheological analysis of the phenomenon of growth in Christina community -- A strategy for the growth of the church -- 7. An appraisal of church growth theory -- Contributions of the church growth movement to contemporary missiology -- The problem with church growth theory -- God's mission and the church's tensions -- 8. Mission and church-mission relations -- The church-mission issue -- The problem behind the issue -- Toward relevant criteria for a sound church-mission relationship policy -- 9. Mission and the liberation of man -- Problem in Historico-theological perspective -- The nature of the problem -- Uppsala and the renewal in mission report -- Evangelicals and the renewal in mission report.

ISBN

• 0842302751
• 9780842302753
• 084230276X
• 9780842302760

LCCN

74080150

OCLC

• ocm01054488
• 1054488
• SCSB-122746

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library