Charles E. Van Engen – författare

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. This is increasingly difficult in today's pluralist and global contexts. What was God's message, and how has spreading that message changed through the generations? The answer to that question requires a hermeneutical process that seeks to understand the biblical text and the context in which it was originally presented.R. Daniel Shaw and Charles Van Engen say that contemporary proclaimers of God's word can model their approach after that of the writers of scripture, who reinterpreted and restated their received texts for their audiences. Thus, Gospel communication is impacted by the way humans know God. This, in turn, is informed by contexts. Communicating God's Word in a Complex World draws lessons from the biblical authors themselves as a guide for how best to present God's message.

Communicating God''s Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. This is increasingly difficult in today''s pluralist and global contexts. What was God''s message, and how has spreading that message changed through the generations? The answer to that question requires a hermeneutical process that seeks to understand the biblical text and the context in which it was originally presented.R. Daniel Shaw and Charles Van Engen say that contemporary proclaimers of God''s word can model their approach after that of the writers of scripture, who reinterpreted and restated their received texts for their audiences. Thus, Gospel communication is impacted by the way humans know God. This, in turn, is informed by contexts. Communicating God''s Word in a Complex World draws lessons from the biblical authors themselves as a guide for how best to present God''s message.

For the past thirty years mission theology has taken a backseat to mission practice. Recently, however, people of all theological stripes have begun to reexamine the theological presuppositions that underlie the mission enterprise. In Mission on the Way Charles Van Engen masterfully articulates the contours of mission theology. The result is a complete investigation of evangelical mission theology as it relates to (1) biblical and narrative theology, (2) cultural context, (3) ecclesiology, (4) world councils, (5) religious pluralism, (6) interaction with competing theologies, and (7) the overall task of ministry.

Announcing the Kingdom provides a comprehensive survey of the biblical foundation of mission. It investigates the development of the kingdom of God theme in the Old Testament, describing what the concept tells us about God's mission in creation, the flood, and the covenant with Abraham. It then describes God's mission through the nation of Israel during the exodus, at Mt. Sinai, and through the kings of Israel. The book then examines God's mission as Israel is sent into exile and the stage is set for the Messiah's coming.Finally, the book considers the fulfillment of the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ and the church. It examines Jesus' parables and ministry, his proclamation of God's kingdom among the nations, and the work of the Holy Spirit through the church.Announcing the Kingdom is the product of Arthur Glasser's more than thirty years of teaching and has been used by thousands of students at Fuller Theological Seminary. Now revised by Glasser's colleagues, this study provides mission workers and students with a new understanding of their calling and its biblical foundation.

Durante los pasados cincuenta anos, el enfasis sobre la practica y estrategia de la obra misionera ha menoscabado el valor de la importancia de la teologia de la mision. Sin embargo, en las ultimas decadas teologos y misiologos de todas las tradiciones cristianas han comenzado a reexaminar y repensar las suposiciones teologicas que fundamentan la obra misionera. En Mision en el Camino Charles Van Engen articula con claridad muchos de los conceptos fundamentales de la teologia de la mision. Charles Van Engen, en este volumen, aborda numerosos temas misiologicos centrales. Examina la cuestion de construir teologias en contextos especificos, tales como en la ciudad. Tambien nos muestra tanto los beneficios como las preocupaciones que experimentamos cuando alentamos a los creyentes a teologizar dentro de su propio entorno, cuando tomamos con seriedad el sacerdocio de todos los creyentes. Hace un delineamiento de los debates actuales sobre asuntos levantados por el pluralismo religioso, y batalla con la manera en que podemos proclamar el caracter unico de Cristo, sin ser arrogantes y triunfalistas. Echa una mirada al impacto que la modernidad y la posmodernidad estan teniendo sobre el movimiento misionero en Occidente, y hace un llamado a la renovacion de nuestro compromiso como seguidores de Jesucristo en los duros ambientes culturales de nuestros dias. Explora los roles cambiantes de misioneros y ministros en iglesias jovenes, y levanta preguntas dificiles relacionadas con la unidad de la iglesia en medio de su proliferacion, diversidad y fragmentacion de caracter global. Son de excepcional valor, la manera en que Van Engen traza la historia de la discusion reciente sobre cada uno de estos asuntos y la riqueza de fuentes bibliograficas que nos presenta para mas estudio. Igualmente, importantes son las repuestas que el ofrece a estas cuestiones, respuestas que nos ayudan a movernos mas alla de los caminos sin salida que tanto caracterizan nuestro pensamiento actual. (Tomado del Prologo escrito por Pablo Hiebert.)

En esta obra maestra, basada en toda una vida de reflexion biblica en cuanto a las misiones globales, Arthur Glasser nos presenta una vision de la unidad de toda la historia. Examina los temas del Rey y del reino de Dios tal como aparecen a lo largo de la Biblia. Nos muestra que toda la Escritura apunta al hecho que Dios es un Dios misionero y que el pueblo de Dios, la iglesia, debe ser un pueblo misionero. Nos muestra que la mision esta en el centro del gran plan de Dios, no solo de redencion sino tambien de creacion. . . . Nos recuerda que la mision de Dios incluye no solo la salvacion de individuos y la redencion de la iglesia, sino tambien el restablecimiento del reino de Dios de rectitud, de paz y de justicia. . . .Glasser nos llama a recuperar la vision de la mision que corre por toda la Biblia y tomar eso como la base para la motivacion y los metodos que usamos en nuestro alcance misionero. --Tomado del "e;Prologo"e; por Paul Hiebert

En su esencia, la iglesia de Jesucristo es y busca ser misionera, participe de la mision de Dios. En esta obra editada y ampliada el autor, Carlos Van Engen, desafia a los lectores con una perspectiva misionera de la iglesia que responde a los retos del siglo 21. A partir de una eclesiologia biblica, historica y teologicamente amplia que trasciende las barreras culturales y etnicas del cristianismo, el autor nos ofrece una vision que transforma nuestras maneras de ser la iglesia en mision. Esta obra es eminentemente positiva ya que promueve el avance del Reino de Dios desde una solida perspectiva biblica y amplia.

From the explosive contexts of Nairobi, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Madras burst fresh insights on the mission of the church for the city. Jude Tiersma and Charles Van Engen worked closely with an international team of experienced urban practitioners to explore the most urgent issues facing those who minister in today's cities. From each particular urban setting, a team member contributed a story from ministry in the city. Each story uniquely illustrates a different challenge of urban ministry in the face of injustice, marginalization, and urban structures. This book brings you these stories, then retells them in light of Scripture, introducing new hope to each one. From these stories emerge new ideas about the nature of cities and how to practice ministry in them. The new methodology employed by Van Engen and Tiersma's team leads us in the first steps toward a theology of mission for the city. God So Loves the City is a must for pastors, seminary students, missiologists, congregation members, and all who are concerned about urban ministry.

Eighty percent of all new church members become part of a local congregation because of a previous relationship or friendship with another member of that congregation. Yet in spite of a number of excellent books written concerning relational evangelism, little seems to happen in actually motivating, training, and mobilizing church members to evangelize their neighbors, friends, businesses associates, and family members. That is, until You Are My Witnesses. This new book is designed to be used by small groups in local churches as an action-reflection training manual for those committed to be Christ's witnesses.

Twenty-five doctoral students from around the world recently set out to forge a new path toward a theology of mission. As they blazed a new trail, they discovered the footprints of God--evidence that God was their trial guide. Charles Van Engen led this group of mission practitioners, pastors, teachers, and mission executives as they set out to discover answers to important questions, such as "e;What is theology of mission?"e; and "e;What is missiology?"e;The team used a new approach to answer these questions, employing narrative to integrate personal story, community stories, cultural stories, and biblical stories. Each writer brings his or her own unique context to bear on these important questions through personal story and by highlighting the work of a major missiologist who has impacted their life and work. By drawing from personal stories, the authors show how human factors affect missiology. All of the chapters are set within a unique theological framework created by Charles Van Engen that focuses on mission of the way, mission in the way, and mission on the way. This framework reveals that mission must be "e;of the way"e; (Christ-centered), "e;in the way"e; (happening among the peoples and cultures of the world), and "e;on the way"e; (moving forward over time through God's people as they anticipate Christ's present and coming kingdom). If you are concerned about connecting the Bible, theology, and ministry with the complexity and variety of contexts facing Christians today, then you will want to join this journey to discover the footprints of God. As Van Engen says, you will be encouraged to "e;think theologically about mission, and missiologically about theology."e;

La teologia de la mision es una actividad que procura discernir lo que Dios quiere hacer principalmente a traves del pueblo de Dios en tiempos, lugares y contextos especificos, en el mundo amado por Dios. Teologia de la mision transformadora es una exploracion del campo mas amplio de la misiologia como una disciplina integradora. En esta obra, Van Engen provee claras razones sobre lo que la mision es y no es, construyendo sobre la obra de muchos otros. Dado, que la mision es principalmente la mision de Dios, la reflexion teologica debe estar permeada de la comprension misiologica, y la misiologia debe estar permeada de la reflexion teologica. En este volumen se describe la tarea de hacer una teologia de la mision en un mundo que se esta globalizando. Cada una de sus cinco partes desarrolla un aspecto de la teologia de la mision: las fuentes, el significado, los metodos, las metas, y diversos ejemplos de una teologia de la mision transformadora. El autor espera que algo en estos ejemplos estimule a los lectores a explorar maneras de crear y transformar su propia teologia de la mision, al participar en la mision de Dios en su contexto, en su tiempo y espacio.