In this time of post-Christendom, worship and mission are to be integrated anew. This is the view of Alan Kreider & Eleanor Kreider. Worship and Mission After Christendom looks at how we can re-think our understanding of "worship" and of "mission". Worship and Mission After Christendom, authors Alan Kreider & Eleanor Kreider discuss how mission is now emerging as God's mission, where God is calling all Christians to participate in His plan, and how Worship is changing too; becoming more narrative-based, telling the story of God and celebrating His works both past and present to inspire us to live in hope as people of God. In Worship and Mission After Christendom Alan Kreider & Eleanor Kreider point out that worship is being evaluated not by 'worship experience', but by how it empowers Christians to participate in God's mission, first by seeking His Kingdom and His justice.
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Alan Kreider is Professor of Church History and Mission at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Indiana, USA. Eleanor Kreider teaches Worship and Mission at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Indiana, USA.
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A resource for both the study and practice of worship and mission
Aug 31 2011
By Joshua Brockway
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At the dawn of the middle ages Pope Gregory the Great began the systematic reforms of the crumbled western Roman empire. Part of his project included the unification of ritual practice from Rome to the western edge of the continent. These liturgical reforms aimed to unite Christendom in a common mode of worship. Though liturgists speak of this time as the codification of liturgical texts, it was also a landmark historical moment in which the pope recognized the importance of shared practice. In other words the citizens of the empire would not just be Christian in name but would identify one another as companions in a shared practice.
In our time this political usage of the church's worship seems Machiavellian, especially at the dawn of Post-Christendom. For those traditions of the Radical Reformation which are most at home in the age Post Christendom, such a perspective on the formation of persons through ritual practice is suspect. For many in the Anabaptist stream of Christianity our theology, most notably our ecclesiology, often has little room for liturgical awareness. Instead ethics or mission are results of a cognitive system. We simply do what we believe. But where do these beliefs emerge? How do we know that our way of life is actually distinct from that of the surrounding world?
The Kreider's have finally opened the door to answer and understand these questions as uniquely liturgical. Without heading down the road of Pope Gregory's liturgy, Alan and Eleanor reveal how our time of worship in the presence of a transforming God shape us and send us out into the missio dei- the mission of God's reconciling love in the world.
This is no small undertaking. Not only do the Kreider's address the cultural and ecclesial shifts of 21st century Post-Christendom, they describe the fields of missiology and liturgical history. It is a task they accomplish with attentive skills throughout the book. Not only does their research emerge clearly in their prose and bibliography but their ability to synthesize these often insular disciplines.
Joshua Brockway
Director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship, Church of the Brethren
In our time this political usage of the church's worship seems Machiavellian, especially at the dawn of Post-Christendom. For those traditions of the Radical Reformation which are most at home in the age Post Christendom, such a perspective on the formation of persons through ritual practice is suspect. For many in the Anabaptist stream of Christianity our theology, most notably our ecclesiology, often has little room for liturgical awareness. Instead ethics or mission are results of a cognitive system. We simply do what we believe. But where do these beliefs emerge? How do we know that our way of life is actually distinct from that of the surrounding world?
The Kreider's have finally opened the door to answer and understand these questions as uniquely liturgical. Without heading down the road of Pope Gregory's liturgy, Alan and Eleanor reveal how our time of worship in the presence of a transforming God shape us and send us out into the missio dei- the mission of God's reconciling love in the world.
This is no small undertaking. Not only do the Kreider's address the cultural and ecclesial shifts of 21st century Post-Christendom, they describe the fields of missiology and liturgical history. It is a task they accomplish with attentive skills throughout the book. Not only does their research emerge clearly in their prose and bibliography but their ability to synthesize these often insular disciplines.
Joshua Brockway
Director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship, Church of the Brethren
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