Lived Mission in 21st Century Britain
Ecumenical and Postcolonial Perspectives
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Paperback / softback
£35.00
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334065531
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 30/08/2024
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Nearly 30 years after South African missiologist David Bosch explored what he called elements of an emerging ecumenical missionary paradigm Lived Mission in 21st Century Britain propose that there is still work to be done ecumenically for missiology to inhabit rightfully its role as critical friend, crosser of boundaries, advocate for justice and intellectual ankle biter.
Bringing together a unique array of contributors, the book considers what mission as practice looks like both through the eyes of those who are well established as theologians and reflective practitioners and those who are working on the ground and have written little on their daily lived experience.
Chapter authors include Jan Nowotnik, Graham Adams, Shemil Mathew, Timothy Boniface Carroll, Bisi Adenekan, Elizabeth Joy, Heather Major, Tom Hackett, James Woodward, Raj Bhara Patta, Paul Weller, Niall Cooper, Lisa Adjei, Shermara Fletcher and Anupama Ranawana
Foreword
Mike Royal and Nicola Brady
Acknowledgements
Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Benjamin Aldous and Victoria Turner
Confessions
1. The Synodal Pathway in the Catholic Church
Jan Nowotnik
2. Mission in the colonial matrix of adult power: Child-centredness as way, truth and life!
Graham Adams
3. Contexts and Consequences: Enduring Pain versus the Intentional Erasure of Colonial Legacy
Shemil Mathew
4. When the Church of the British Isles begins to venerate her own saints, then the Church will grow
Timothy Boniface Carroll
Contexts
5. This is our land: Africans Evangelising in Britain
Harvey Kwiyani
6. Second-generation British-Nigerians and Contextual Mission in Britain
Bisi Adenekan
7. ‘Marginality’ as Mission Priority: Decolonising Theology to Participate in God’s Mission
Elizabeth Joy
8. Beyond Breaking Point: Responding to Brokenness in Rural Scottish Parish Churches
Heather Major
9. Witnessing as Mission: Powerlessness as Prophetic Discipleship in the Hostile Environment
Tom Hackett and Victoria Turner
10. Befriending the elderly stranger: lived mission and older people
James Woodward
Consequences
11. Mission and Racial Justice: Ecumenical and Millennial perspectives
Lisa Adjei and Shermara Fletcher
12. Just(ice) Love: A Public Theological Engagement with the Bible
Raj Bharat Patta
13. Less Christian, More Secular and More Religiously Plural: 21st Century Census Data as Contextual Challenge and Opportunity for Christian Presence and Witness in England
Paul Weller
14. Reimagining Mission from the Margins: Reclaiming Dignity, Agency and Power together
Niall Cooper
15. Communities of resistance, migrant rights and the climate crisis: Ambalavaner Sivanandan’s prophetic challenge to lived mission.
Anupama Ranawana
Conclusion
16. Where do we go from here?
Harvey Kwiyani and Peniel Rajkumar