Visions of the Good Life
Salvation, Church, and Mission in the Secular West
Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity; 36;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- ISBN 9789004724952
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages16 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The many crises that affect our lives challenge traditional Christian views of salvation. This volume interacts with these crises, drawing from different contexts and practices, to find new ways for Christian faith-communities to flourish and find peace.
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There is something wrong with us and the world we find ourselves in. In the Christian tradition, the concept of God's salvation describes the divine intervention to overcome this brokenness. However, such language might easily be misunderstood in the increasingly secular West. To make the reality of the doctrine of salvation understandable, relevant, and attractive for Europeans in the West, we might begin to think of it more in terms of relationship, well-being, and wholeness. Using a Biblical term, salvation is about the Shalom of the Reign of God. This volume explores the lived salvation practices of faith communities and missions, and their conceptualisations in the West: how is the good life perceived and practiced?
Contributors are Clive Marsh, Jan Martijn Abrahamse, Dejan Aždajić, K. Francis Adebayo, Philip Bartholomä, Janel Kragt Bakker, Nigel Rooms, Karen Zwijze-Koning, Hans Schaeffer, Berdine van den Toren-Lekkerkerker, Jack Barentsen, Chris James, Sake Stoppels, Annemieke de Jonge, Bert Roor, Evelien van Duffelen, Harvey Kwiyani, James Butler, Kathy Ross, Ross Lockhart, and Stefan Paas.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Salvation, Church, and Mission: Visions of the Good Life and the Why of Christian Faith in the Secular West
Hans Schaeffer
part 1: Salvation in Societal and Cultural Perspective: Mirroring Contexts
2 Why Salvation Matters … for Church, in Mission and for Society
Clive Marsh
3 Does God Do Anything Novel? The Shape of Salvation in Late Modern Religious Literature
Jan Martijn Abrahamse
4 Why Should I Get Saved? The Secular Contribution to a More Holistic Understanding of Salvation
Dejan Aždajić
5 Mediating the Good Life: Reflections on Materiality and Material Prosperity in African Pentecostal Soteriological Discourse
K. Francis Adebayo
6 From Acceleration to Resonance: Hartmut Rosa’s Sociology of the Good Life and the Mission of the Church
Philipp Bartholomä
7 White Christian Nationalism, Salvation, and the Kingdom of God
Janel Kragt Bakker
part 2: Salvation and Inherited Churches: Renewing Present Practices
8 Participating in the Flow of God: Church Development and Salvation
Nigel Rooms
9 Salvation and Church Renewal: Evaluating Church Practices to Foster Reflexivity and Experiences of Salvation
Karen Zwijze-Koning and Hans Schaeffer
10 Godly-Worldly Salvation in Bunia, and in Groningen: Indicators for a Missional Ecclesiology
Berdine van den Toren-Lekkerkerker
11 Exploring the Dynamics between Practices of Church Leadership and Visions of Salvation
Jack Barentsen
part 3: Salvation and Mission: Crossing Boundaries
12 Salvation as Life Together in the Neighbourhood
Christopher James
13 The Missional Mindset of Pastors and Pioneers in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Sake Stoppels
14 Soteriological Views of Practitioners in Missional Practice in the Netherlands
Annemiek de Jonge
15 Mapping Experiences of Salvation and Good Life in Pioneering Faith Communities
Bert Roor and Evelien van Duffelen
16 Europe’s New Evangelists: Exploring African Pentecostal Soteriologies in Europe
Harvey Kwiyani
17 Who Then Can Be Saved? Perspectives on a Lived Theology of Salvation among Fresh Expressions in the UK
James Butler and Cathy Ross
18 Ruler of All Nature? Environmentalism, Soteriology and Mission in Vancouver, Canada
Ross A. Lockhart
part 4: Salvation as Ministry of Peace: a Way Forward?
19 The Ministry of Peace: Contours of a Post-Christendom Soteriology
Stefan Paas
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