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Publication Date: 17 Jan 2019 |
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Publisher: IVP |
Words: 60000 |
Page Count: 240 |
Author: Chris Steed |
ISBN-13: 9781783596621, 9781783596638 |
The Identification Principle
How The Incarnation Shapes Faith And Ministry
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For A Question of Worth (Taurus 2016)
A genuinely essential book: it draws from an unusually wide range of first-hand experience as well as theoretical sophistication, and provides and unsparing diagnosis of of the lethal vacancy at the centre of our culture....Deploying social science, psychology, ethics and theology together, Chris Steed gives us hope as well as anxiety.
Rowan Williams
Christopher Steed has written a thoughtful and challenging book, It is a timely contribution to a debate that many more of us should be having.
Matthew Taylor. Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and Former Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Identification Principle offers a new impetus to holistic and practical engagement by the church with our world. All too often, incarnational ministry is divorced from proclamation and prayer. The author, who is an Anglican minister, is responsible for a large and innovative Christian social project on the edge of city centre, which is developing new forms of community engagement in a way that does not lose the importance of spiritual formation. Word and work go hand in hand. This fresh take on incarnational life, church and society draws together recent academic research and cutting-edge ministry. It presents a renewed theology of Christian action for a new generation of evangelical leaders who have to intuitively hold together action with word and worship.
The book offers both theology and praxis. Exploring the role of the atonement, the honour of God and His divine worth, the incarnation and the role of Christ. The author argues the effectiveness of proclamation, intercession, and the confronting of systemic and individual wrongs to create new types of communities that engage culture and re-focuses mission.