Mobilizing for the Common Good by Slade Peter;Marsh Charles;Heltzel Peter Goodwin;

Author:Slade, Peter;Marsh, Charles;Heltzel, Peter Goodwin; [Perkins, John M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Religionless Ecclesiology and the Missional Church

Peter Goodwin Heltzel and Christian T. Collins Winn

JOHN PERKINS REIMAGINES THE CHURCH AS A MOVEMENT FOR LOVE and justice. In this imaginative proposal, Perkins delivers a challenge to evangelicals to move beyond institutional religion toward a prophetic evangelical faith in and for the world. In this gesture, Perkins’s theology has much in common with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “religionless Christianity.” From a prison cell in Germany, he too would reimagine the church without the shackles of institutional religion. While Bonhoeffer articulated a Christological form of prophetic church, Perkins describes the church as a Christ-centered healing movement, more specifically as a movement for community development marked by racial reconciliation and economic justice. Both visions of the church, however, presuppose an eschatological vision of the world, one in which the powers and principalities of this age are passing away. Throughout his ministry Perkins has sought to usher in a new form of evangelical ecclesiology—one that is prophetic, antiracist, intercultural, missional, and transformational. Perkins’s vision of a prophetic church is vital for the future of the world Christian movement in the North American context.

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