Just Mission: Practical Politics for Local Churches - Softcover

Cameron, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334052297 ISBN 13: 9780334052296

Verlag: SCM Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

•An accessible introduction to political engagement as part of the mission of the local church.•The author’s earlier Resourcing Mission is now widely quoted and used as a text that makes practical theology accessible to church practitioners.•Helen Cameron is well networked both as an academic and as a practitioner. The last decade has seen a resurgence of the social action of the local church – responses to social need have included street pastors, cold weather shelters, debt advice centres and latterly food banks. The last decade has also seen a greater experimentation in forms of evangelism, most prominently in the fresh expressions movement. The intention has been to bring the Church into contact with people who would not otherwise cross its threshold. All these changes have led to new pastoral relationships being formed and a greater awareness of how social change affects real people’s lives.Just Mission draws upon the increased activism of local churches and links it to effective use of democratic processes to achieve justice for the people with whom they have a pastoral relationship. It seeks to explain in a straight forward and theologically-based way, how they can undertake that task based upon the pastoral work that arises from their social action and evangelism.Helen Cameron introduces the political and public theology that is currently being produced to local church leaders so they can see that theology has a genuine interest in the dilemmas they currently face.

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Helen Cameron is a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical Theology of which she was the founding Director. She is Head of Public Affairs for The Salvation Army.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SCM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0334052297
• ISBN 13: 9780334052296
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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