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While ‘Mission in Britain today’ includes many aspects, this article focuses on the witness of the Church within Britain’s contemporary highly secularized culture. Rather than ‘technical change’, the Church is called to work at ‘adaptive change’, and so to concentrate less on strategies and more on internal renewal. Such adaptive change involves freeing people’s imagination from simplistic and abusive images of God, offering a positive image of God that is inspiring and truly challenging, recognizing the kenotic nature of the Church, and realizing that mission is carried out in a world of grace where God is already present and working

Mission in Britain today: some modest reflections and proposals

Holiness

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While ‘Mission in Britain today’ includes many aspects, this article focuses on the witness of the Church within Britain’s contemporary highly secularized...

Mission in Britain today: some modest reflections and proposals

Published Online: Apr 05, 2020

Page range: 161 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2015-0004

Keywords
MISSION, EVANGELIZATION, BRITAIN, SECULARISM, GOD, CHURCH, SPIRITUALITY

© 2015 Stephen Bevans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mission in Britain today: some modest reflections and proposals

Published Online: Apr 05, 2020

Page range: 161 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2015-0004

KeywordsMISSION, EVANGELIZATION, BRITAIN, SECULARISM, GOD, CHURCH, SPIRITUALITY

© 2015 Stephen Bevans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
MISSION, EVANGELIZATION, BRITAIN, SECULARISM, GOD, CHURCH, SPIRITUALITY