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Alternative Title
Education that is Missional
DOI
DOI: 10.7252/Paper.000015
Series
Association of Professors of Mission 2013 - Workshop Paper #1
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
First Fruits Press
Place of publication
Wilmore, Ky.
Keywords
Association, of, Professors, Mission, APM, Conference, Papers, 2013
Disciplines
Missions and World Christianity
Biography
Included
Recommended Citation
James, Christopher B., "Education that is Missional: Toward a Pedagogy for the Missional Church" (2013). Papers. 18.
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruitspapers/18
Call Number
BV2090 .S624 / BV2020 .A876 2013
Language
English
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ABSTRACT
This paper explores the implications of missional theology for Christian religious education in congregations. In particular, it draws on recent notable missional titles to do three things: 1) to clarify the meaning and aims of missional education as Christian education that specifically privileges the goal of helping Christians discover and live into their identity as God’s cooperative partners in the missio dei, 2) to identify key characteristics of missional education, namely, attention to identity and acuity, life as the classroom, and Scripture as mission narrative, and 3) offer a modest proposal for missional education in the congregational setting through small communities of shared practice.