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Transcending Mission
The Eclipse Of A Modern Tradition
Status: Extended Catalog Item
Isbn: 0830851674
Isbn-13: 9780830851676
UPC:
Speedy#: 175612
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CPC Super: Church and Ministry
CPC Primary: Church Life
CPC Sub: Missions
Author: Stroope Michael W
Publisher: InterVarsity Press/Academic
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Case Qty: 20
Binding: Trade Paper
Price: 54.99
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Weight lbs.: 1.45
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Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the story of apostles and bishops and monks as missionaries, we think we have grasped the true thread of Christian history.

But what about those odd shapes, those unsettling gaps and creases in the historical record? Is the language of mission so clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Is the trajectory of mission really so explicit from the early church to the present? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past?

As with every reigning paradigm, there comes a point when enough questions surface to beg for a close and critical look, even when it may seem transgressive to do so. In this study of the language of mission—its origin, development, and application—Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. There is both surprise and hope in this tale. And perhaps the beginnings of a new conversation.

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