| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
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The Gospel and Our Culture Series (GOCS) |
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Gospel and Our Culture Series (GOCS)
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword, by 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; 1.2.1. Medieval Period; 1.2.2. Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676); 1.2.3. Gustav Warneck (1834-1910); 1.2.4. Joseph Schmidlin (1876-1944); 1.2.5. Pierre Charles (1883-1954); 1.2.6. Recent Catholic Documents; 1.2.7. Conclusion; 1.3. Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as an Instrument of Evangelization; 1.3.1. From the Planting of the Church to the Planting of Churches |
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1.3.2. A Modern Movement1.3.3. Organic Growth; 1.3.4. Scientific Approach; 1.3.5. Conclusion; 1.4. Late-Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as Innovation; 1.4.1. The Introduction of Evangelical Church Planting in Modern Europe; 1.4.2. The DAWN Story; 1.4.3. Fresh Expressions of Church; 1.5. Three Motives behind Church Planting in Europe; 2. Planting Better Churches; 2.1. "Mission" and "Confession"; 2.2. Terminology; 2.2.1. Sectarian Church Planting; 2.2.2. Denominational Church Planting; 2.2.3. Confessional Church Planting; 2.3. Christendom Divided; 2.3.1. "Making a New Church." |
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2.3.2. Confessionalization2.4. Historical Examples of Confessional Church Planting in Europe; 2.4.1. Territorial and Voluntary Christianity; 2.4.2. Anabaptists in the Sixteenth Century; 2.4.3. Baptists in the Seventeenth Century; 2.4.4. Pietists and Moravians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 2.4.5. Methodists in the Eighteenth Century; 2.4.6. Baptism and Methodism in Europe during the Nineteenth Century; 2.4.7. Characteristics of Free Church Planting in Europe; 2.5. Missiological Reflections; 2.5.1. Church and Mission: Undermining the Idea of a Christian Nation |
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2.5.2. Church and Proselytism: An Ambiguous Analysis2.5.3. Church and Kingdom: Planting Socially Engaged Churches; 2.5.4. Church and Cultural Transformation: Resisting Completeness; 2.5.5. Church and World: From Revival to Mission; 2.5.6. The Unity of the Church and Mission: Expressing a Desire for Visible Unity; 2.6. Conclusion; 3. Planting More Churches; 3.1. Defining Growth; 3.2. The Missiological Framework; 3.2.1. Church Growth Theory and Church Planting; 3.2.2. Is Growth the Purpose of Mission?; 3.2.3. Pragmatism; 3.2.4. Conclusion; 3.3. The Logic of Church Growth Theory |
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3.3.1. Giving Depth to Popular Claims3.3.2. Four Reasons Why Church Planting Furthers Church Growth; 3.3.3. Religious Market Theory; 3.4. Evaluating Religious Market Theory on Three Levels; 3.4.1. Micro-Level: The Rational Actor; 3.4.2. Meso-Level: Competing Religious Organizations; 3.4.3. Macro-Level: Religious Markets and the Religious Economy; 3.4.4. Some Conclusions for Church Planting; 3.5. Empirical Evidence; 3.5.1. What Is "Growth" in Church Growth Theory?; 3.5.2. How to Measure Growth?; 3.5.3. Research vs. "Mobilization Rhetoric"; 3.5.4. Evidence from the United States |
| Notes |
3.5.5. General Conversion Data in Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church development, New -- Europe
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Church development, New
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Church history -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045636
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781467446181 |
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1467446181 |
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