The Priesthood of All Believers and the Missio Dei: A Canonical, Catholic, and Contextual Perspective

by Hank Voss

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications

, 2016

Overview

The priesthood of all believers is a pillar undergirding Protestant ecclesiology. Yet the doctrine has often been used to serve diverse agendas. This book examines the doctrine’s canonical, catholic, and contextual dimensions. It first identifies the priesthood of all believers as a canonical doctrine based upon the royal priesthood of Christ and closely related to the believer’s eschatological temple-service and offering of spiritual sacrifices (chapters 1–3). It secondly describes its catholic development by examining three paradigmatic shifts, shifts especially associated with Christendom (chapters 4–6) and a suppression of the doctrine’s missional component. Finally, the book argues that a Christian doctrine of the priesthood of all believers should be developed with a Christocentric-Trinitarian understanding of the missio Dei. This suggests there are especially appropriate ways for the royal priesthood to relate to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. A canonically and catholically informed priesthood of all believers leads contextually to particular ecclesial practices. These seven practices are 1) Baptism as public ordination to the royal priesthood; 2) Prayer; 3) Lectio Divina; 4) Ministry; 5) Church Discipline; 6) Proclamation; and 7) the Lord’s Supper as the renewal of the royal priesthood.

Product Details

• Title: The Priesthood of All Believers and the Missio Dei: A Canonical, Catholic, and Contextual Perspective
• Author: Hank Voss
• Series: Princeton Theological Monograph Series
• Volume: 223
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Priesthood, Universal; Mission of the church
• ISBNs: 9781498283298, 9781498283311, 9781498283304, 1498283292, 1498283314, 1498283306
• Resource ID: LLS:PRSTHDLLBLVMSSD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:26:58Z

About Hank Voss

Hank Voss (PhD, Wheaton College) is national director of church planting at World Impact and senior national staff with The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI). He is the author of The Priesthood of All Believers and the missio Dei: A Canonical, Catholic, and Contextual Perspective. His ministry experience includes fifteen years in urban ministry focused on cross-cultural church planting and contextualized theological education. Voss is married to fellow World Impact missionary Johanna and they have four children.