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