A Missional Method for Constructive Theology (Part 5) So far, I have sketched my question, thesis, and working definitions of missional, and missiology. In this post, I briefly survey recent proposals for missional theological method from Stephen Bevans, Paul Chung, Stan Nussbaum, and Jason Sexton.[1. When I wrote this survey, Sexton’s book, The End of Theology: ShapingContinue reading “Four Recent Proposals for Missional Theological Method”
Category Archives: Missional Theology
Working Definition of “Missiology”
A Missional Method for Constructive Theology (Part 4) Missiology in Theological Perspective Because missiology’s relationship to the rest of the theological curriculum has been uncertain since its inception, the discipline’s definition itself highlights the a methodological question for my approach to missional theology. How does the study of mission relate to constructive theology? The historical transitionsContinue reading “Working Definition of “Missiology””
Working Definition of “Missional”
A Missional Method for Constructive Theology (Part 3) The Meaning of Missional It has been nearly twenty years since the publication of Missional Church, which introduced the term missional into mainstream theological discourse in North America. Equally as important, it has been nearly forty years since Lesslie Newbigin published The Open Secret, which purported toContinue reading “Working Definition of “Missional””
My Thesis
A Missional Method for Constructive Theology (Part 2) Missional theology is a movement without a method—a movement with many methods. Born of interculturality, contextualism, and an adaptive instinct, the missional disposition entails a certain eclecticism, even a methodological relativism. Indeed, the commitment to mission precedes the question of method and judges the demand for methodologicalContinue reading “My Thesis”
A Missional Method?
A Missional Method for Constructive Theology (Part 1) Constructive theology inevitably involves a method. Even theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, who said of his own method, “The road emerged only as I walked it,” operate with an “implicit method.”[1. Jürgen Moltmann, Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology, trans. Margaret Kohl (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000),Continue reading “A Missional Method?”
Scripture & Mission 