Participation and Church Planting

Joshua Cockayne is Academic Dean at at Cranmer Hall in Durham and the Director of the Bede Centre for Church Planting Theology.

• List of ContributorsDurham Studies in Church Planting and TheologyForeword by the Rt Revd Dr Eleanor SandersonIntroduction: Church Planting and Divine ParticipationJoshua CockaynePart 1 Perspectives on Participation from Scripture1 Planting Diversity through Scarcity and Expansion: Evidence from the Old TestamentDru Johnson2 Participation in Exodus: The Tabernacle as a TemplateElizabeth R. Hare3 Participation and Mission in John’s GospelMichael J. Gorman4 Passengers or Participants: A Missional Reading of 2 Peter 1.3–8 65Peter Nevins5 Participation in Christ’s Reign in the Book of Revelation and in New Church Communities TodayHelen MillerPart 2 Perspectives on Participation from Tradition6 Persons in Communion: The Significance of the Doctrines ofthe Trinity and Participation for the Mission of the ChurchAlan J. Torrance7 Apocalypse, Participation, Missional Disillusionment andBurnout: An Antidote to Missional Ecclesiology 114Jared Michelson8 Trinitarian Fullness and the Dangers of Church Planting in the Context of DeclineAndrew Hood9 The Participation Problem: Lay-led Church Plants in a Sacramental DenominationBrogan Hume10 Participation, Missio Dei and Contemporary EcclesiologicalControversies: A Missiologist Dialogues with Andrew Davison’s Participation in GodNigel RoomsPart 3 Perspectives on Participation from Practice11 Beyond EcclesiocentrismPete Ward12 Neurodiversity and Church Planting: Participation as Radical InclusionNic Harris and Elli Wort13 Pace and Power: Reflections on the Church of England’s ‘Resource’ Church Through a Case Study of St Frideswide’s, Water Eaton BletchleyBen Aldous, Ayo Audu, Catherine Butt14 Stories from the FieldGill C. Sakakini15 Forget the Former ThingsAli Williams

While missiology in general has made a 'Copernican shift' (David Bosch) towards missio Dei theology around the middle of the twentieth century, church planting, with its deep roots in evangelical pragmatism, has often stuck to older paradigms of church growth, soul-winning and activism. This much-desired volume brings church planting up to date by rooting it in participation in God's mission, exploring notions like humility, receptivity, and sacramentality. I highly recommend it.