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Towards a Theology of Church Growth, EPUB eBook

Towards a Theology of Church Growth EPUB

Part of the Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology series

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Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce.

Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology.

Leading international scholars, including Alister McGrath, Benedicta Ward and C.

Kavin Rowe, contribute a spectrum of voices from evangelical, charismatic, liberal and anglo-catholic perspectives.

All contributors unite around the importance of seeking church growth, provided this is situated within a nuanced theological framework.

This book offers a critique of ’decline theology’, which has been influential amongst theologians and churches, and which assumes church growth is impossible and/or unnecessary.

The contributors provide rich resources from scripture, doctrine and tradition, to underpin action to promote church growth and to stimulate further theological reflection on the subject.

The Archbishop of Canterbury provides the Foreword.

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