What Is Jesus Doing? – God`s Activity in the Life and Work of the Church

Edwin Chr. van Driel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2020
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5260-4 (ISBN)

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Jesus is present here and now, Christians have always affirmed. But how are we to understand his present activity in a challenging, post-Christian context? In what ways is he at work in our congregational worship, pastoral care, preaching—and even our board meetings?
At a time when many feel uncertain about the future of the church, What Is Jesus Doing? brings together leading thinkers in pastoral theology, homiletics, liturgical theology, and missiology in a compelling resource for pastors and theologians. Emphasizing the reality of Jesus both as the resurrected, ascended Christ and as present and active today, the contributors consider how to recognize the divine presence and join in what God is already doing in all areas of church ministry.
Contributors include:

David Fergusson
Dwight J. Zscheile
Scott J. Hagley
Craig Barnes
Roger Owens
Anthony B. Robinson
Will Willimon
Andrew Root
John D. Witvliet
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Angela Dienhart Hancock
Trygve D. Johnson

With deep theological reflection, personal stories, and practical suggestions, this interdisciplinary conversation invites leaders to remember that the church is first of all God's project, not ours—and that this truth should fill us with hope.

Edwin Chr. van Driel occupies the Directors' Bicentennial Chair in Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is the author of Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology.

Preface

1. What Is Jesus Doing? Christological Thoughts for an Anxious Church and Tired Pastors (Edwin Chr. van Driel)

Systematic Theology

2. He Ascended into Heaven: The Ascension and Agency of Christ in the Theology of T. F. Torrance (David Fergusson)

3. Rethinking Church in a Post-Christian Age (Edwin Chr. van Driel)

Missional Theology

4. Cultivating the Spirit’s Leadership in Congregational Life (Dwight J. Zscheile)

5. A Present Witness: Incarnation, Participation, and the Spirit of God (Scott J. Hagley)

Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care

6. The Mission of God in Pastoral Care (M. Craig Barnes)

7. Shaping a Pastoral Spirituality: Learning from the Spiritual Vision of Quaker Thomas R. Kelly (L. Roger Owens)

8. Baptizing the Ordinary: Divine Agency and Church Administration (Anthony B. Robinson)

9. God’s Agency in Ecclesial Structures: A Time of Pruning (Will Willimon)

10. Ministry and the Concursus Dei (Andrew Root)

Liturgics and Homiletics

11. The Mysterious Mingling of Divine and Human Agency in Liturgical Participation: Pedagogical Reflections (John D. Witvliet)

12. Preaching the Word of God (Nicholas Wolterstorff)

13. The Prophetic Agency of Jesus Christ and the Task of Preaching (Angela Dienhart Hancock)

14. Preaching in Context (Trygve D. Johnson)

Contributors

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Verlagsort	IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	496 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-5260-3 / 0830852603
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-5260-4 / 9780830852604
Zustand	Neuware