Joining God in the Great Unraveling: Where We Are and What I’ve Learned
Ebook
Overview
The awareness that the churches shaped out of the European Reformations are in an advanced process of unraveling is becoming increasingly sensed by many. This book proposes a way of addressing this unraveling based on the experiences and knowledge of people who have always had to struggle with the unraveling of their own communities and worlds. It takes us outside the circular conversations of the Euro-tribal churches into dialogue with people who have been marginalized to see how they have learned to reenter their formative stories to discover ways of remaking themselves in the unraveling. The book then turns these discoveries into ways the churches can engage their own massive unraveling.
“At a time of critical challenge for the church, this book
invites us on a journey of rediscovery. Engaging with stories from
the margins, its language is engaging and incisive, naming the
dilemmas at the heart of contemporary mission and suggesting ways
into new spaces. It is a profound invitation to a new kind of
seeing.”
—Paul Weston, director of the Newbigin Centre, Ridley Hall,
Cambridge
“After twenty years or more of the missional conversation, Al
Roxburgh takes us on a much-needed reflective break, leading us
through the questions all over again. In Joining God in the
Great Unraveling, he leads us past our church-based anxiety to
what we have been missing: a fresh encounter with the living God at
work in our world. A wonderful, mesmerizing piece by a towering
missiologist scholar that is sure to help every pastor lead in this
cultural moment.”
—David Fitch, author of Faithful Presence and professor at
Northern Seminary
“Alan Roxburgh takes us on a ‘how I’ve changed my mind’
autobiographical journey—rich with intelligent conversation
partners, incisive theo-cultural analysis, and hopeful
on-the-ground opportunities for walking a gospel path. Along the
way, Mary Jo Leddy guides us in resistance and reweaving, Lauren
Oakes warns us about the canary tree, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
connects place to intelligence, and Simone Weil lures us away from
technocratic rationalism. Instead of remaining in a house of
language that hides the gospel inside abstractions, Roxburgh
pursues ways of knowing (Polanyi), the importance of bodies and
locations (Jennings), and the skills we need to discern where and
how God is in our midst (Newbigin), among our neighbors and in our
geographies—and we are invited to join.”
—Mark Lau Branson, coauthor of Leadership, God’s Agency, &
Disruptions: Confronting Modernity’s Wager
“The title of this book conveys two important and connected
realities. First, profound change is impacting our culture and the
churches that attempt to minister in such a context. Second, God
has not abandoned either our culture or his church. Finding our way
in the midst of anxiety-producing change is a challenge that
requires some signposts, and Alan Roxburgh’s latest offering helps
to locate that signage in ways that local leaders can recognize and
engage with.”
—Martin Robinson, former principal of ForMission College and author
of multiple books on mission
- Title: Joining God in the Great Unraveling: Where We Are & What I’ve Learned
- Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725288522, 9781725288508, 9781725288515, 1725288524, 1725288508, 1725288516
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725288522
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T05:37:18Z