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A Public Missiology

How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

By: Gregg Okesson

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A Public Missiology

How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

By: Gregg Okesson

How can Christians witness to the complexity of our world? Gregg Okesson shows that local congregations are the primary means of public witness in and for the world. As Christians move back and forth between their churches and their neighborhoods, workplaces, and other public spaces, they weave a thick gospel witness. This introduction to public missiology explains how local congregations can thicken their witness in the public realms where they live, work, and play. Real-life examples from around the world help readers envision approaches to public witness and social change.

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Baker Academic

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1493422383

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Advocating for Justice

An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

By: F. David Bronkema,Robb Davis,Stephen Offutt,Gregg Okesson,Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

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Advocating for Justice

An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

By: F. David Bronkema,Robb Davis,Stephen Offutt,Gregg Okesson,Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

Christians are increasingly interested in justice issues. Relief and development work are important, but beyond that is a need for advocacy. This book shows how transforming systems and structures results in lasting change, providing theological rationale and strategies of action for evangelicals passionate about justice. Each of the authors contributes both academic expertise and extensive practical experience to help readers debate, discuss, and discern more fully the call to evangelical advocacy. They also guide readers into prayerful, faithful, and wise processes of advocacy, especially in relation to addressing poverty.

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A Public Missiology

How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

By: Gregg Okesson

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How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

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Re-Imaging Modernity

A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya

By: Gregg A. Okesson

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Re-Imaging Modernity

A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya

By: Gregg A. Okesson

This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610977416

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Advocating for Justice

An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

By: F. David Bronkema,Robb Davis,Stephen Offutt,Gregg Okesson,Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

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An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

By: F. David Bronkema,Robb Davis,Stephen Offutt,Gregg Okesson,Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

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Re-Imaging Modernity

A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya

By: Gregg A. Okesson

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A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya

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Navigating Complexity in Our World

Public Theologies for Everyday Life

By: Gregg Okesson,Amanda Allen

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Navigating Complexity in Our World

Public Theologies for Everyday Life

By: Gregg Okesson,Amanda Allen

This book began, at least in seminal form, back in May 2010. I was sitting in my office at Kijabe Hospital, Kenya, when I received an email letting me know I was accepted as a new faculty member at Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. I had been teaching at a theological institution in Kenya for nearly a decade. My African seminary posted me to Kijabe hospital in order to help integrate theology within a medical curriculum. While in the West this might appear a curious union; there it made complete sense. In Africa (and elsewhere around the world) health represents a significant theological category due in large part to the larger cosmology found on the continent, with more fluid interaction between spiritual and material realities. Being healthy involves negotiating the different ways people become sick as well as how they appropriate resources within the spiritual realm for becoming healthy. Furthermore, health is not just vertical in terms of how people relate to the divine, but also horizontal innature. People are sick together; they also heal together. Working at the hospital allowed me to engage health as a rich, multifaceted theological concept.

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First Fruits Press

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1648170110

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A Public Missiology

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A Public Missiology

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Re-Imaging Modernity

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Advocating for Justice

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