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Scholarship March 29, 2017

The Missional Church & Leadership Formation: Helping Congregations Develop Leadership Capacity

The Wabash Center

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Author
Van Gelder, Craig, ed.
Publisher
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI
ISBN
9780802864932
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Engaging the Missional Church Conversation

Section I Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Theological Education
ch. 1 Theological Education and Missional Leadership Formation: Can Seminaries Prepare Missional Leaders for Congregations? (Craig Van Gelder)
ch. 2 Missional Theology for Schools of Theology: Re-engaging the Question What Is Theological about a Theological School?(Kyle J. A. Small)
ch. 3 Developing Evangelical Public Leadership for Apostolic Witness: A Missional Alternative to Traditional Pastoral Formation (Richard H. Bliese)

Section II Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Congregations
ch. 4 Cultivating Missional Leaders: Mental Models and the Ecology of Vocation (Scott Cormode)
ch. 5 Forming Lay Missional Leaders for Congregations and the World (Sharon Hnderson Callahan)
ch. 6 Vision-Discerning vs. Vision-Casting: How Shared Vision Can Raise Up Communities of Leaders Rather than Mere Leaders of Communities (Dave Daubert)

Section III Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Recent Research
ch. 7 Characteristics of Congregations That Empower Missional Leadership: A Lutheran Voice (Terri Martinson Elton)
ch. 8 Leadership and the Missional Church Conversation: Listening In on What Leaders in Four Denominational Systems Have to Say (Kristine M. Stache)
In this volume - the third book in the Missional Church series - eminent missional church expert Craig Van Gelder continues to track and contribute to the expanding missional church conversation, inviting today's brightest minds in the field to speak to key questions concerning church leadership. (From the Publisher)