Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition: Ecclesiology for by Graham Hill,Michael Frost

Graham Hill's pioneering vintage is still the seminal paintings on missional ecclesiology. The bestselling first version redefined theology for the missional church. Hill builds biblical foundations in dialog with significant theologians, together with Sarah Coakley, John Zizioulas, Stanley Hauerwas, Miroslav Volf, and Jurgen Moltmann. during this significant replace, he deals new insights and gives clean examples of missional church buildings. within the first variation, Hill interacted with twelve significant theologians to construct a missional ecclesiology. during this completely up-to-date variation, he interacts with 16 significant theologians from the Western international. This variation comprises 5 new chapters and an improved remedy at the key convictions of worldwide missional theology. It additionally deals a brand new learn advisor that has been uploaded on an cutting edge web site associated with this publication. This accelerated variation now turns into quantity 1 in a sequence on missional ecclesiology. In quantity 2, Hill will flip our recognition to voices from the bulk World.
 
Known for his groundbreaking method of theology--theology for the worldwide missional community--Hill indicates how God is liberating his worldwide church to undertaking, throughout all cultures and Christian traditions. This wide replace to Hill's influential paintings bargains pioneering theology and practices that might proceed to form the worldwide missional church for generations.

Contributors:

1. Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI): The Church as Communion
2. Karl Rahner: The Church as neighborhood of Witness
3. Hans Kung: The Church as Eschatological neighborhood of Salvation
4. Catherine LaCugna: The Church as Trinitarian Community
Eastern Orthodox
5. Thomas Hopko: The Church as Fullness of God
6. Vigen Guroian: The Church as bizarre and moral Community
7. John Zizioulas: The Church as Eucharistic Communion
8. Frederica Matthews Greene: The Church as Praying and remodeled Community
Protestant
9. Letty Russell: The Church as family of Freedom
10. Jürgen Moltmann: The Church as Messianic and Relational Koinonia
11. John Webster: The Church as Communion of Saints
12. Dana L. Robert: The Church as worldwide and Missional People
Free Church
13. John Howard Yoder: The Church as New, Redeemed Community
14. Barry Harvey: The Church as Altera Civitas
15. Miroslav Volf: The Church as photo of the Trinity
16. Reta Halteman Finger: The Church as World-Transforming Homes

"If you must be aware of the theological dialog, and when you are drained (as i'm) of all people and her brother popping up missional rockets that should clear up all our difficulties (and don't), then Salt, gentle, and a City will sluggish all of it right down to a real dialog with biblical foundations interacting with the main theologians and concerns. this is often crucial e-book i've got ever learn at the church and its challenge. Graham Hill has a profound take hold of of vital theologians and he exhibits how every one theologian contributes to a powerful missional ecclesiology."
--Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of recent testomony, Northern Seminary

"Graham Hill levels in every single place in an effort to build a potential ecumenical, yet particularly missional, ecclesiology. In so doing, he offers us with a complicated, clever, and passionate contribution to 1 of the defining problems with our time."
--Alan Hirsch, founding father of 100Movements

Graham Hill (PhD, Flinders collage) teaches utilized theology at Morling university in Sydney, Australia, the place he's additionally the vice primary. A former church planter and pastor, he's a Senior Lecturer on the collage of Divinity and the Australian university of Theology. he's additionally the writer of GlobalChurch: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our project, Revitalizing Our Churches.