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A review by utah_mustacheman
God at Work in the World: Theology and Mission in the Global Church by Lalsangkima Pachuau
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Pachuau summarizes and synthesizes many theological themes to create a missiology. There are moments where Pachuau seems to be church-centric: "The church occupies an irreplaceable tradition in God's mission of saving and blessing the world." (128) While this urge, I think, comes from a necessity to triage many church traditions, it seems unclear whether God can move outside of the church. Where does Pachuau stand on that?
The strength of this work is its abundant clarity that cuts through theological complexity and distractions: "There is a mission because there is salvation," "Belief in the divinity of Jesus defines Christianity," and "Jesus operates fully within his culture while his mission transcended that culture even as it sought to transform it." A magnificent call to radically study the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as guidance for modern mission thinking.
The strength of this work is its abundant clarity that cuts through theological complexity and distractions: "There is a mission because there is salvation," "Belief in the divinity of Jesus defines Christianity," and "Jesus operates fully within his culture while his mission transcended that culture even as it sought to transform it." A magnificent call to radically study the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as guidance for modern mission thinking.