The Church and the World

Kirk, J Andrew

The Church and the World Understanding the Relevance of Mission - Bletcley, U K Paternoster 2014 - 354p

includes index and biblioraphy

Part one: Biblical foundations .....1 1. In the world, but not of the world: A biblical view of the cosmos ......3 2. The ends of the world: The meaning and scope of mission in the old testament ......30 3. Go into all the world: The meaning and scope of mission in the new testament .....49 4. The light of the world: The ethical witness of the christian community .....70 Part two: Patterns from history .....99 5. The new world: Church and mission in sixteenth-century Latin America .....101 6. The old world: Church and mission in the radical reformation ......126 7. All the non-christian world: Church, mission and the edinburgh 1910 conference .....150 Part three: Contemporary conderns .....175 8. God, the world and the church .....177 9. Liberation and the world ....201 10. A peaceable world .....232 11. Religious worlds .....261 12 Secular worlds .....293

9781842278123 1140

C76 / K634

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