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Trends in missional ecclesiology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
Missional ecclesiology emerged as one of the significant trends in mission studies and ecumenical discussion in the last couple of years. What were these trends in missional ecclesiology?
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt
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Reorientation of mission and its action plans for a reformed missional ecclesiology in Africa

In die Skriflig
The quest to understand and practise the church’s missionary calling will remain a significant exercise in the church’s life of every age. This article aims to provide a reorientation of the mission and its action plans for a reformed missional ...
Thinandavha D. Mashau
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Cultivating Missional Ecclesiology for the Local Baptist Church in Lebanon [PDF]

, 2021
This dissertation is a study into the missional impulse of the Lebanese Baptist Church. This is accomplished through field research, through case studies, and through an assessment of how the Lebanese crises of the last ten years, as well as theological education, have helped shape the Lebanese Baptist Church.
Haddad, Elie
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C.P.J. Niemandt: A theological pioneer in missional leadership and ecclesiology

Verbum et Ecclesia
C.P.J. Niemandt, widely known as Nelus Niemandt, is a distinguished theologian in the fields of missional leadership and ecclesiology. His academic journey, leadership within the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), and extensive scholarly contributions have ...
Johannes J. Knoetze, Gustav F. Claassen
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The shaping and formation of a missional ecclesiology of township congregations in the Mangaung Metro Municipality during COVID-19

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caught most organisations, institutions and leaders off-guard, including church leaders. This was not any different in the congregations in the townships of the Mangaung Metro Municipality.
Eugene Baron, Khamadi J. Pali
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Mongolian Migrants in a Korean Missional Church:

Ecclesial Futures, 2023
Ever since Lesslie Newbigin’s missional ecclesiology was introduced to South Korean churches in 2000, Korean scholars and pastors have been reaching beyond church growth theory to explore alternative and practical models. Missional ecclesiology led them
Seon-Yi Lee
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Digital ecclesiology and Africa’s digital natives: prospects and challenges

Acta Theologica, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised important issues for the church. Churches have grappled with ministering to their congregants in light of the changes in physical gatherings over the past two years.
K.M. Ndereba
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Missional Leadership [PDF]

, 2021
The purpose and aim of this book is to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. This implies a positioning of this book within the broader theology of mission and a consensus on the theology of the Missio Dei, originating at the ...
Niemandt, Cornelius
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Missional Churches in Secular Societies: Theology Consults Sociology [PDF]

, 2011
The church is missionary by nature. But what about public church mission in secular societies? Furious religion mobilizing against rebarbative secularity? Withdrawal to seek exemplary perfection?
Hughson, Thomas
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Why Ecclesiology Cannot live by Doctrine Alone : a reply to John Webster's 'In the Society of God' [PDF]

, 2014
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Brittain, Christopher
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