Spiritual Formation for the Global Church - by Ryan a Brandt & John Frederick (Paperback)

About the Book

The church is a global body of believers called to grow in Christ. Yet too often, it privileges a few voices and ignores the practical dimensions of the faith. Offering a multi-denominational, multi-ethnic vision, this volume brings together biblical scholars, theologians, and practitioners from around the world to pursue a theology and praxis of spiritual formation for the global church.

Book Synopsis

The church is called to grow in Christ. Yet too often, it ignores the practical dimensions of the faith.

The church is one in Christ. Yet too often, it is divided by national, denominational, theological, and racial or ethnic boundaries.

The church is a global body of believers. Yet too often, it privileges a few voices and fails to recognize its own diversity.

In response, this volume offers a multi-denominational, multi-ethnic vision in which biblical scholars, theologians, and practitioners from around the world join together to pursue a cohesive yet diverse theology and praxis of spiritual formation for the global church.

Be fed in your faith by brothers and sisters from around the world.

Review Quotes

"Spiritual Formation for the Global Church is a unique and substantial contribution to spiritual formation. It covers a multidenominational and multicultural approach with a diverse group of authors that better reflects and represents the global church and not just the North American or Western church. It also emphasizes theology as involving spiritual formation at its core and the crucial ministry of the Holy Spirit. This book is essential reading for a more broad-based and biblical perspective on spiritual formation."

About the Author

Ryan A. Brandt (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Christian history and theology at Grand Canyon University. He serves as the managing editor of the Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care and Perichoresis.

John Frederick (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is lecturer in New Testament and Greek at Trinity College Queensland in Australia. He is the author of Worship in the Way of Cross: Leading Worship for the Sake of Others and The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love. He is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).