Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century

by Timothy C. Tennent

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2010

Overview

Invitation to World Missions combines a strong biblical anchor with practical suggestions. This unique text is arranged in three parts according to the Trinity’s roles, relationships, and activity. Tennent questions whether missions as currently conceptualized is adequate and he challenges the reader by building the book around key theological foundations such as “mission dei” and the “new creation” vision for the global church. This volume will call and enable the reader to understand how missions is biblically and theologically basic to Christianity, and how missions is essential to living out an abundant and impassioned life.

Key Features

• Analyzes recent trends in missions
• Calls for the church to completely rethink missionary work
• Proposes a time of rest and transition for missions

Contents

• Introduction
• God the Father: The Providential Source and Goal of the Missio Dei
• God the Son: The Redemptive Embodiment of the Missio Dei
• God the Holy Spirit: The Empowering Presence of the Missio Dei

Top Highlights

“The mission fields that were described were always in some distant land where people spoke strange languages and had even stranger customs.” (Page 15)

“The word has slowly migrated from a theocentric connotation to a more anthropocentric one” (Page 54)

“The Father is the Sender, the ‘Lord of the harvest’; the incarnate Son is the model embodiment of mission in the world; and the Holy Spirit is the divine, empowering presence for all of mission.” (Page 75)

“In this book the word mission refers to God’s redemptive, historical initiative on behalf of His creation. Mission is first and foremost about God and His redemptive purposes and initiatives in the world, quite apart from any actions or tasks or strategies or initiatives the church may undertake. To put it plainly, mission is far more about God and who He is than about us and what we do.” (Pages 54–55)

“Wright proposes what he calls a ‘missional hermeneutic’ that sees the whole of Scripture as a ‘missional phenomenon in the sense that it witnesses to the self-giving movement of this God toward his creation and us.’” (Page 61)

Product Details

• Title: Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
• Author: Timothy Tennent
• Series: Invitation to Theologicl Studies
• Publisher: Kregel
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 560
• Resource Type: Introduction
• Topic: Missiology

About Timothy C. Tennent

Timothy C. Tennent is president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.

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