A world-claiming theology of the church draws on ancient and modern thoughts. The author focuses on how the church can grow to become in reality "God's missionary people."
An introduction to ecclesiastical theology
"Mission--a driving force in the long Christian story--today is often cast as the embarrassing relative of tall-steeple religiosity. In our wider culture it's now tucked in the endnotes of book-club histories or forms the ghostlike ellipses in the six o-clock news. But in Introducing Christian Mission Today, Michael Goheen incorporates the keen missional insights of Lesslie Newbigin, David Bosc…