
Beyond Snakes and Shamrocks
St. Patrick's Missional Leadership Lessons for Today
Ross A. Lockhart(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 2. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-5326-3497-0 (ISBN)
Description
Somewhere in the mists of time, between history and hagiography, stands the great evangelist and missionary St. Patrick. Raised a "cultural Christian," Patrick's encounter with God during captivity in Ireland transformed his life and the history of a people. Freedom from slavery, and a return home to Britain, produced the divine summons--Vox Hibernia--to return to Ireland and the place of captivity in order to witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christian witness in twenty-first-century Vancouver, Seattle, or Portland is a world away from fifth-century Armagh, Slane, or Cashel. Yet, the great evangelist to pre-Christian peoples of Hibernia has much to teach us as we seek to engage our secular, post-Christian context. There is wisdom in the missional leadership of the one we call St. Patrick that goes well beyond tales of snakes and shamrocks. How might Patrick's mission experience with pre-Christian peoples direct our contemporary missional encounter with post-Christian peoples? Come explore the story of the shepherd slave turned shepherd of souls and discover that there is power still in the legacy of Patrick, when yoked with the Spirit-filled presence and purpose of the risen Christ.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-3497-0 (9781532634970)
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Persons
Ross A. Lockhart is dean of St. Andrew's Hall, professor of mission studies at the Vancouver School of Theology, and founding director of the Centre for Missional Leadership. He is author of Lessons from Laodicea: Missional Leadership in a Culture of Affluence (Cascade, 2016) and Beyond Snakes and Shamrocks: St. Patrick's Missional Leadership Lessons for Today (Cascade, 2018).