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Missional Church, Public Theology, World Christianity
A Book Series in Collaboration with Wipf & Stock Publishers
Series Chair: Paul S. Chung

Scholars, practitioners, and interdisciplinary researchers are warmly invited to contribute to the book series Missional Church, Public Theology, World Christianity, published in partnership with Wipf & Stock.

This series explores the dynamic intersections of mission, public life, and global Christianities in an age marked by pluralism, democratic fragility, ecological crisis, and intercultural encounter. It welcomes innovative scholarship that advances constructive theological reflection, comparative and interreligious engagement, and contextually grounded approaches to public theology and missional practice.
If you are interested in contributing a monograph or edited volume, please read the preamble to the series below and contact:

Paul S. Chung
Chair of the Series Editors, publitheology@gmail.com

Preamble

In the midst of globalization there is crisis as well as opportunity. A model of God’s mission is of special significance for ecclesiology and public theology when explored in diverse perspectives and frameworks in the postcolonial context of World Christianity. In the face of the new, complex global civilization, the theology of mission, missional ecclesiology, and public ethics endeavor to provide a larger framework for missiology in interaction with our social, multicultural, political, economic, and intercivilizational situation; they create ways to refurbish mission as constructive theology in critical and creative engagement with cultural anthropology, world religions, prophetic theology, postcolonial hermeneutics, and contextual theologies of World Christianity. Such endeavors play a critical role in generating theological, missional, social-ethical alternatives to a global reality characterized by civilizational conflict, and by the complex system of a colonized lifeworld that is embedded within practices of greed, dominion, and ecological devastation. This series—Missional Church, Public Theology, World Christianity—invites scholars to promote alternative church practices for life-enhancing culture and for evangelization as telling the truth in the public sphere, especially in solidarity with those on the margins and in ecological stewardship for the lifeworld.

Stephen Bevans, Paul S. Chung, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Craig L. Nessan, and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Series Editors