incarnational whatevers...
Friday, July 13, 2007
Matt Stone has two excellent, and very helpful, posts regarding incarnational missiology and incarnational pneumatology. Don't be put off by my 'theological jargon' way of describing the content of the posts - both are really accessible and raise some important considerations for anyone engaged in mission amongst (using Matt's own words) "New Age "whateverists," western Buddhists, yoga practitioners, NeoPagans, witches and goddess worshippers." His diagrams are particularly helpful summaries of the various view points under discussion.
Here's a taster of where Matt ends up in his second post, which may encourage you to follow the whole argument...
"being more engaged with the world than Pentecostalism, missional pneumatology is in a far greater position to speak intelligably back into cultures that practice channelling, holistic medicine and mantras. Furthermore, being more holistically informed by the pre-Pentecost pneumatology of the Old Testament, missional pneumatology speaks of the Spirit of God moving though all creation without confusing Creator with creation."
Go read... [1], [2]
Here's a taster of where Matt ends up in his second post, which may encourage you to follow the whole argument...
"being more engaged with the world than Pentecostalism, missional pneumatology is in a far greater position to speak intelligably back into cultures that practice channelling, holistic medicine and mantras. Furthermore, being more holistically informed by the pre-Pentecost pneumatology of the Old Testament, missional pneumatology speaks of the Spirit of God moving though all creation without confusing Creator with creation."
Go read... [1], [2]
Labels: mission, spirituality, theology
1 Comments:
I thought "incarnational pneumatology" was when a Christian lady has a puncture, and prays that a nice young man will turn up and help them change the wheel.
Which in both cases, a nice young man did.
(P.S. Not a sexist comment - I'm thinking of TWO real conversations with certain Christian ladies recently!)
Which in both cases, a nice young man did.
(P.S. Not a sexist comment - I'm thinking of TWO real conversations with certain Christian ladies recently!)
I'm Malcolm Chamberlain
from Liverpool, United Kingdom
. I'm married with two young children and, in addition to Liverpool, have lived in Leicester (for the first 18 years of my life), York, Peshawar (Pakistan), Oxford and Walsall. I've been actively involved in the emerging church since 2001, as a founding member of Dream in Liverpool City, and coordinator of the Dream network. I'm currently engaged in research into emerging missional communities, and work as a parish priest and pioneer minister.
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