Compassionate Ministry by Bryan P Stone
What are the theological foundations of Christian ministry? What should a vital Christian ministry look like in the world today? Teacher and veteran of urban ministry Bryan Stone addresses these important questions in an engaging and challenging book. Compassionate Ministry explores systematically the relationship between Christian doctrines of God, church, and human existence, and the focus and meaning of ministry today. It offers a solid introduction to the theology of ministry through an approach rooted in the compassion of God, which Stone shows is evident throughout the scriptures and made real in the incarnation and ministry of Jesus. Compassionate Ministry locates a primary focus in the experience of suffering and poverty which marks daily life for the majority of people today. Stone builds continually on this insight, drawing out the dimensions of a humanizing ministry that participates in restoring the image of God in which all have been created: an image of freedom, humanity, community. Understanding God as all-compassionate, and Jesus as the Compassion of God, this book provides a model of a compassionate church as a liberating community: people who, knowing what they believe, work and worship together in the service of humanizing praxis in their own community, and in the world at large. Finally, this ministry call for compassionate evangelism which proceeds itself from the community, as a more holistic and historical approach than current consensus might suggest.
Stone, Bryan: - Bryan Stone (PhD, Southern Methodist University) is associate dean for academic affairs and E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at the Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is also cofounder and codirector of the Center for Practical Theology. He previously taught at Azusa Pacific University. Stone has authored or coauthored numerous books, including Evangelism after Christendom, A Reader in Ecclesiology, and Sabbath in the City: Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781570750694 |
| ISBN 10 | 1570750696 |
| Title | Compassionate Ministry |
| Author | Bryan P Stone |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orbis Books (USA) |
| Year published | 1996-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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