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| Titre : | Church Planting in the Secular West : Learning from the European Experience |
| Auteurs : | Stefan Paas, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Grand Rapids [USA] : William B. Eerdmans, 2016 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8028-7348-4 |
| Format : | xii + 304 p. / bibliographie, index |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | DS/H (Implantation d'églises) |
| Résumé : | An expert study of church planting in the most secular part of contemporary Europe In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context. Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas explores confessional motives, growth motives, and innovation motives for church planting in Europe, tracing them back to different traditions and reflecting on them from theological and empirical perspectives. He presents examples from the European context and offers sound advice for improving existing missional practices. Paas also draws out lessons for North America in a chapter coauthored with Darrell Guder and John Franke. Finally, Paas weaves together the various threads in the book with a theological defense of church planting. Presenting new research as it does, this critical missiological perspective will add significantly to a fuller understanding of church planting in our contemporary context. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword (John R. Franke) - Introduction 1. Church Planting and Its Reasons: 1.1. The Roots of Church Planting / 1.2. The Classic Paradigm: A Three-Stage Process - Medieval Period - Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) - Gustav Warneck (1834-1910) - Joseph Schmidlin (1876-1944) - Pierre Charles (1883-1954) - Recent Catholic Documents – Conclusion. / 1.3. Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as an Instrument of Evangelization / 1.4. Late-Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as Innovation / 1.5. Three Motives behind Church Planting in Europe - 2. Planting Better Churches: 2.1. “Mission" and “Confession” / 2.2. Terminology - Sectarian Church Planting - Denominational Church Planting - Confessional Church Planting / 2.3. Christendom Divided / 2.4. Historical Examples of Confessional Church Planting in Europe - Territorial and Voluntary Christianity - Anabaptists in the Sixteenth Century - Baptists in the Seventeenth Century - Pietists and Moravians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Methodists in the Eighteenth Century - Baptism and Methodism in Europe during the Nineteenth Century - Characteristics of Free Church Planting in Europe / 2.5. Missiological Reflections / 2.6. Conclusion - 3. Planting More Churches: 3.1. Defining Growth / 3.2. The Missiological Framework / 3.3. The Logic of Church Growth Theory / 3.4. Evaluating Religious Market Theory on Three Levels / 3.5. Empirical Evidence / 3.6. Conclusions - 4. Planting New Churches: 4.1. Crisis and Renewal / 4.2. The Complexity of the Task / 4.3. Structures of Expectation / 4.4. Three Biotopes of Renewal / 4.5. Church Planting as an Instrument of Renewal - 5. In Defense of Church Planting in Europe: 5.1. Justifications of Church Planting / 5.2. Biblical Arguments for Church Planting in Europe / 5.3. Church Planting as a Theo-Logical Consequence / 5.4. Conclusion |
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