GOD'S MISSION AND POSTMODERN CULTURE

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Questioning the Legitimacy of Mission

Political Change 21

Academic Changes

Vatican II 25

Postmodern Culture

Summary 32

2. Rediscovering Mission in God

First Analogy: Trinity as a Paradigm Shift 36

Second Analogy: Trinity as “Relationality”

Third Analogy: Trinity as “Differe(a)nce”

Fourth Analogy: Trinity as “Event” Summary 53

3. Death, God, and Trinitarian Mission

A God Who Suffers Death within the Trinity

Summary

4. Our Mission: A New Way of Being, a New Way of Doing

Participation in God's Mission as a New Way of "Being" 73

Participation in God's Mission as a New Way of "Doing" Summary

God's Mission and Postmodern Culture

5. Mission Lived

Prayer and Peace Presence in South Sudan

What's Mission after Fifty Years?

Mission as Working with the Hired Hands by Doug Venne 101

Gentle Service to the Poorest

Summary

6. Mission and Ecclesial Existence

Living Ecclesial Existence: Openness to the "Other"

Living Ecclesial Existence: Looking Beyond

Living Ecclesial Existence: Mutuality in Relationships

Living Ecclesial Existence: Accepting Intimacy 119

Notes

Index