Missional. Monastic. Mainline. : A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions

Heath, Elaine A.; Duggins, Larry

ISBN 10: 1620326248 / ISBN 13: 9781620326244

Published by Cascade Books, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Missional. Monastic. Mainline. : A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620326248
• ISBN 13: 9781620326244
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Here is the long-awaited volume that provides both the theoretical foundations and practical guidance for developing new monastic and missional communities in contexts that are theologically progressive, racially and economically diverse, and multicultural. This book contains the wisdom and perspectives of people who live and serve in missional, new monastic communities in United Methodist and other mainline traditions, and it describes new forms of theological education that are emerging to resource a new generation of Christian leaders. Heath and Duggins challenge Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and other Christians to reach into their own robust, mainline heritage for resources to develop small, intentional communities that practice a rigorous life of prayer, hospitality, and justice.

About the Authors

Elaine A. Heath is the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. She is also the Director of the Academy for Missional Wisdom, a non-degree program that equips clergy and laity to start and lead missional and new monastic communities, and is a program of the Missional Wisdom Foundation. She is the author of The Mystic Way of Evangelism (2008), Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer (2009), Longing for Spring: A New Vision for Wesleyan Communities (coauthored with Scott Kisker, 2010), We Were the Least of These: Reading the Bible with Survivors of Sexual Abuse (2011), and The Gospel According to Twilight: Women, Sex, and God (2011).

Elaine is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.


Larry Duggins is Executive Pastor of Emerging Worship at White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas, and is the Executive Director of the Missional Wisdom Foundation. He is the author of Simple Harmony (2012).