Church as Dynamic Life-System Association of Catholic Publishers Award Beginning with the missionary expansion

Beginning with the missionary expansion of the fifteenth century

I consider it yet another must-read for everyone

he shows how five paradigms have historically encapsulated the Christian understanding of mission and then outlines the characteristics of an emerging postmodern paradigm dialectically linking the transcendent and imminent dimensions of salvation

offering an historical introduction

Church as Dynamic Life-System Association of Catholic Publishers Award Beginning with the missionary expansionWith the goal of sustaining the relevance and, paradoxically, the permanence of the church, Bracken proposes an open ended systems approach to ecclesiology. He synthesizes the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead to produce his novel argument, which is grounded in the language of process theology and a continually evolving universe. This book will appeal to readers of Diarmuid OMurchu and Ilia Delio, and to followers of this