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This volume seeks to draw together scholars from biblical studies, systematic and historical theology, and practical theology to reflect on how the concept of participation can help us to think theologically about church planting.
Participation promises to offer a unique theological lens through which to see church planting; for the concept of participation is crucial for understanding the relationship between the church and mission of God. As the New Testament writers remind the early church over 130 times, their participation "in Christ" is central to life of the Church. Participation refers not just to the task that Christian disciples are given to do, but something of their identity: it tells us who they are. It is therefore crucial for any one trying to do ecclesiology; the church is not just a community of likeminded believers, but rather, they are those who participate in the mystical body of Christ.
Contents
List of Contributors
Durham Studies in Church Planting and Theology
Foreword by the Rt Revd Dr Eleanor Sanderson
Introduction: Church Planting and Divine Participation
Joshua Cockayne
Part 1 Perspectives on Participation from Scripture
1 Planting Diversity through Scarcity and Expansion: Evidence from the Old Testament
Dru Johnson
2 Participation in Exodus: The Tabernacle as a Template
Elizabeth R. Hare
3 Participation and Mission in John's Gospel
Michael J. Gorman
4 Passengers or Participants: A Missional Reading of 2 Peter 1.3-8 65
Peter Nevins
5 Participation in Christ's Reign in the Book of Revelation and in New Church Communities Today
Helen Miller
Part 2 Perspectives on Participation from Tradition
6 Persons in Communion: The Significance of the Doctrines of
the Trinity and Participation for the Mission of the Church
Alan J. Torrance
7 Apocalypse, Participation, Missional Disillusionment and
Burnout: An Antidote to Missional Ecclesiology 114
Jared Michelson
8 Trinitarian Fullness and the Dangers of Church Planting in the Context of Decline
Andrew Hood
9 The Participation Problem: Lay-led Church Plants in a Sacramental Denomination
Brogan Hume
10 Participation, Missio Dei and Contemporary Ecclesiological
Controversies: A Missiologist Dialogues with Andrew Davison's Participation in God
Nigel Rooms
Part 3 Perspectives on Participation from Practice
11 Beyond Ecclesiocentrism
Pete Ward
12 Neurodiversity and Church Planting: Participation as Radical Inclusion
Nic Harris and Elli Wort
13 Pace and Power: Reflections on the Church of England's 'Resource' Church Through a Case Study of St Frideswide's, Water Eaton Bletchley
Ben Aldous, Ayo Audu, Catherine Butt
14 Stories from the Field
Gill C. Sakakini
15 Forget the Former Things
Ali Williams
