Participation in God: A Theological Framework for Individual and Congregational Development
Ebook
Overview
What does God have to do with you and your community? There are many good resources for individual and community development, but few that talk about where God enters the conversation. This work develops a particular theology of participation in the life of God and describes how this theology of participation in God informs individual and congregational development.
The subject of congregational development is human beings and their relationships with God and each other. This theological framework provides individual and congregational development an answer to the question, “What does individual and congregational development have to do with God?” Much of the reading and writing for this book were done during the COVID-19 pandemic, which raised new questions about how Christian communities gather without being in person. This in turn has prompted new questions and thoughts about the nature of worship, ecclesiology, and adaptive challenges, questions that Luck addresses through a theology of participation in God, particularly participation in God’s glory.
One of the great needs today, in both church and academy, is to reknit the connection between theology and congregational development. In this book Tom Luck does just that, developing a theological framework centered on participation in God, which proves fruitful for community development, liturgy, ecclesiology, and adaptive leadership. Along the way, he engages close readings of biblical texts and surveys contemporary Anglican theology and sacramental practice. The result is an account at once deeply theological and deeply practical that holds great promise for the life of the church.
——Jason A. Fout, academic dean and associate professor of Anglican Theology, Bexley Seabury Seminary, Chicago
- Title: Participation in God: A Theological Framework for Individual and Congregational Development
- Author: Thomas G. Luck
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 118
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781498204378, 9781498204361, 1498204368, 9781498204385, 1498204384, 1498204376
- Resource ID: LLS:9781498204378
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-23T00:26:53Z
G. Thomas Luck has a BA from Austin College, an MDiv from Nashotah House, an ALM from Harvard, a DMin from Bexley Seabury, and a Level II Award by Wine and Spirits Education Trust. He is vicar of St. Martin’s Church, Mason, Texas and has served congregations in Texas, New Hampshire, Maine, and New York in rural, suburban, and urban contexts. He has served as wine advisor in various wineries and restaurants. With his wife, Jane, he lives in Fredericksburg, Texas. They share seven grandchildren and one dog. Get more information or view an occasional blog at participationingod.com, or sign up at participationingod@gmail.com.