God Unknown
The Trinity in Contemporary Spirituality
1st Edition
Published on 26. January 2013
208 pages
978-1-84825-424-4 (ISBN)
Description
An essential volume for all engaged in mission today, God Unknown shows how the doctrine of the Trinity can illuminate mission, worship and spirituality - allowing for open-endedness and speaking with great prophetic challenge to our individualistic culture.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Knowing God: Rational and Trans-rational
- Experiencing God
- Scriptural References to the Trinity
- The Influence of the Cappadocian Mothers and Fathers of the Early Church
- The Implications of Perichoresis
- Doctrines and Division
- St Augustine's Interpretation
- The Contribution of Karl Barth
- Faith as Desire and How (Not) to Speak of God
- Reflection
- Divine Open-endedness
- Worship as Temple Appeasement
- The Charismatic Renewal as Trinitarian Correction in the West
- The Age of the Holy Spirit and the Church
- Divine Open-endedness
- The Trinity and Kenosis
- Gospel as Open-ended and Unwritten
- Reflection
- Our Becoming through God
- Implications of the Creator
- Knowing through the Spirit
- The Emerging Church and the Holy Spirit
- Reflection: Visual Expression of the Trinity
- Models and Lessons from the Emerging Church
- What is Driving these Values?
- Models of Church
- Mystical Communion Model
- Sacramental Model of Church
- Ekklesia and Transformative Community
- The Wisdom of Richard Hooker
- Fraternity as New Monasticism
- Flat Leadership and Collaborative Decision-making
- Rhythm of Life
- Participation in Doing
- Mission Consideration
- Reflection: Why are these Models of Church Important?
- Ancient:Future Church
- The Rise of Holistic Spirituality and Techgnosis with the Demise of Religion
- Unsettling of the Spirit?
- The Danger of the Pick'n'mix God
- Fundamentalism as the Impossible Faith of Techgnosis
- Reflection
- Orthopraxis and Sacramentality
- Trinitarian Presence in Places you Least Expect
- Emerging Churches: Commitment to the Pursuit of Transcendent, Contextual Theology
- Reflection
- The Challenge of Human Community in a Culture of Individualism
- The Becoming of Community
- The Becoming of Belonging
- The Becoming of Forgiveness
- The Becoming of Hope
- The Becoming of Justice
- Reflection
- Mission as Participation in God
- Where from Here?
- Trinitarian Devotions
- Recommended Reading
