Reimagining Mission from Urban Places offers much needed reflection about the nature of mission and about expectations for missional outcomes. Using the stories of team members within the Eden Network (which emphasises an 'incarnational' approach to urban mission) the book demonstrates that at its best, mission happens in a shared life rather than being about 'us' telling the listening world.

Anna Ruddick

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Reimagining Mission from Urban Places

Acknowledgements

1 Reality is Good Enough

You are enough! . . . and reality is good enough

Transformation – what does it really mean?

Disillusionment, confusion and failure

Learning from the margins

Getting to reality

So what can we learn from reality?

2 How People Change – Finding Pastoral Care in Mission

What is a meaning-system?

Meaning and story

Changing the story

Enabling change through hermeneutical play

'Parabolic' relationships – hermeneutical play in daily life

Parabolic relationships in action

What does this model of life change mean for mission?

3 Missional Pastoral Care in Practice

Living missional pastoral care

Difference

Local

Available

Practical

Long-term and consistent

Love – the affirmation of personhood in practice

Power and incarnation

Class

Poverty

Christian faith and faith-sharing

Revisiting incarnation

4 If it’s Messy, Slow and Complicated, You’re Probably Doing Something Right!

A complex good

A kind of flourishing

Missional pastoral care as a contribution to well-being

5 Is Missional Pastoral Care ‘Good News’?

What they were sent with

The evangelical missional narrative

What they found there – theological reflection from experiences of urban mission

Moving towards an alternative missional narrative

6 Our Theological Season

Raising the wider questions

Evangelicalism as a 'tribe'

Evangelicalism as a product of its time

7 The View From Here

Implications for models of mission

Pastoral care as mission

Practising missional pastoral care

Appendix: Practical Theological Research

The research process

How useful is practical theological research?

Bibliography

Mission in urban or marginalized communities

Broader cultural perspectives on urban mission and theology

Community development and strengths-based approaches to Christian community engagement

Religion and well-being

Index

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