Name: Evaluating Fresh Expressions
Price: 16.76 GBP
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Author: Steven Croft
ISBN: 9781853118166

The Fresh Expressions initiative, a joint Anglican and Methodist venture launched in 2004, has attracted increasing interest from academics, clergy and laity, yet there is very little that offers critical reflection on it. This is the natural successor to John Hulls useful short critique in Mission-Shaped Church: A Theological Response, and key authors assess the impact of mission-shaped thinking and practice from variety of angles.

An impressive line up of contributors (all the leading names in the Fresh Expressions movement: Steven Croft, John Hull, Martyn Percy, Sara Savage, Mike Moynagh, Robin Gamble and others) first asks what counts as a fresh expression and who decides.

Part 1 explores what postmodern ways of viewing the world means for the way churches explore truth and uncertainty, and tradition as an evolving rather than a static enterprise. Part 2 uses real examples to examine who attends fresh expressions and what incarnational theology looks like in practice. Part 3 considers the implications for clergy training and whether there is a case for making pioneer ministry a discrete type. The conclusion asks whether a mixed church economy can really work.

Evaluating Fresh Expressions and Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2024 to Christ the King 2025

Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2024 to Christ the King 2025

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Brilliant. This book has added value. I thought it would be a Haynes Manual exploration and say whether a new Mums and Toddler group counts as a ‘Fresh Expression’. It does explore definitions and examples in the first chapter, but then offers far more. It was such an exciting read I couldn’t put it down! The different contributors bring extra dimensions and ask critical questions. They bring wonderful insights in to the relationship between ‘inherited’ and ‘emerging’ re Rowan Williams phrase about the need for a ‘mixed economy’. The social and psychological studies relating to ‘new and traditional’, as well as ‘large and small’, were particularly stimulating, while the theological and practical questions were explored head on. My copy was well read and margin marked on many pages. A sign of a good book is that it makes you want to write another one. I wish I had the time, as Evaluating Fresh Expressions certainly provided the inclination!

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