The missional renaissance: Its impact on churches in South Africa, ecumenical organisations, and the development of local congregations

Pillay, Jerry

doi:10.4102/hts.v71i3.3065

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“…For him, Ecclesiology is a theological discipline that seeks to understand and define the church, and missional ecclesiology does this from a missional point of view where the church is understood as a community of witness, called into being and equipped by God, and sent into the world to testify to and participate in Christ's work. (p. 1) Pillay (2015) also emphasises that a:…”

Section: The Missional Church Movement In the Southern African Contextmentioning

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“…The contributions of Pillay (2015) and McNeal (2009) as well as the work done by GOCN (1998) are important. It is through a close reading of the proponents of the movement and their contributions that the current authors present in this section three basic tenets that the missional church movement underlines.…”

Section: The Basic Tenets Of Being a Missional Churchmentioning

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The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church: The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination

Baron

Maponya

2020

Verbum et Ecclesia

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The social context of church members spawns different ecclesial imaginations of the nature of the church. Those different ecclesial imaginations often function within one particular church. It interacts with each other – in isolation, competition or hostility – to ultimately shape the life of that church. This article discusses the result of a historical study in which the authors dissected the primary ecclesial imaginations of members of churches in South Africa. The authors, therefore, discuss three of the ecclesial imaginations that emanated from the research, which can be observed within the sampled congregations. The authors argue that because the congregants of the churches have such ‘ecclesiological imaginations’, the prophetic voice of the church in South Africa has become silent. Therefore, the authors suggest that the members of the churches in South Africa should re-imagine the nature of the church in terms of the missio Dei if it wants to recover the prophetic voice of the church. The authors conclude that the missional church discourse provides specific conceptual tools to assist congregations to recover the prophetic voice of the church in South Africa.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article demonstrates the relationship between societal context and its influence and impact on the emergence of ecclesial imaginations. There is an interaction between the discipline of social science, humanities, theology and missiological discourses in terms of the challenge that the authors address in this article.

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Section: The Missional Church Movement In the Southern African Contextmentioning

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Section: The Basic Tenets Of Being a Missional Churchmentioning

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The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church: The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination

Baron

Maponya

2020

Verbum et Ecclesia

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“…Mission is seen as the saving of souls, service ( diakonia ); worship ( leiturgia ); transformation of society, community and world; humanisation; community development; planting of churches (see Bosch, 1991: 8–11, Kirk, 1999: 205–226 for a definition of mission). To emphasise one or more aspects of mission does not render it wrong; it is just incomplete in the comprehensive biblical understanding of mission (Pillay, 2017: 37). The biblical focus on the kingdom (reign) of God provides a comprehensive summary of what Christian mission is all about.…”

Section: Missional2 Shiftmentioning

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COVID-19 Shows the Need to Make Church More Flexible

Pillay

2020

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission St

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The COVID-19 challenge is unprecedented. It has caused enormous trauma, disrupted economies, social life, mass transportation, work and employment, supply chains, leisure, sport, international relations, academic programmes; literally everything. Churches and religious communities have not been spared; they have been severely affected and, in all likelihood, permanently transformed by the pandemic. The pre-COVID-19 world is gone, replaced by a ‘new normal’. The new landscape calls for both resilience and adaptation, embracing new ways of doing things and of being church. Churches have to adapt; they have to ask themselves questions about the implications for being church in this ‘new normal’ context. This article aims to explore the impact of the coronavirus on the mission and theology of the church.

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“…The journals were: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2), Hervormde Teologiese Studies (3), Supplementum (2), Anthropology Now (1), Religion Crossing Boundaries (1), Stellenbosch Theological Journal (1), the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1), and the South African Historical Journal (1). (Nel and Schoeman 2015;Schoeman 2015aSchoeman , 2015bGriffiths-Dingani 2012;Bowers Du Toit 2019;Pillay 2015;Van Wyngaard 2018;Dowd and Sarkissian 2017;Offutt 2011;Kamp and Dijk 2010;Houle 2018;Gathogo 2019;Haynes 2012). The studied countries include: South Africa (8), Zambia (2), Eswatini or Swaziland (1), Kenya (1), Nigeria (1), and Zimbabwe (1).…”

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Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

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This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected publications, are dominated by Western approaches, particular attention is paid in this analysis to publications from geographies that are not from the United States or Western Europe, especially these world regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Similarly, while the study of religiosity is considerably centered around Christianity, this analysis extends beyond Christianity, to the extent possible in extant studies, to include publications investigating other world religious traditions, such as African spirituality, African witchcraft, Afro-Caribbean religious traditions, Buddhism, Confucianism, folk religions, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Neo-paganism, New Religious Movements (NRMs), Shamanism, Sikhism, Spiritism, Taoism, and spirituality generally. A total of 530 publications were reviewed, and the studies are categorized by unit of analysis into: Macro, micro, and meso-level. Measurement constructs include religious demography, culture, belonging, behaving, believing, bonding, religious salience, spiritual identities, religious networks, occupations, congregations, denominations, and faith-based organizations. Non-Western sources and approaches are analyzed toward furthering future research in under-studied world regions. Implications are drawn for the field, such as the need to geo-code publications at the country level.

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The missional renaissance: Its impact on churches in South Africa, ecumenical organisations, and the development of local congregations

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church: The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination

The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church: The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination

COVID-19 Shows the Need to Make Church More Flexible

Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

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