warning though - to engage with it you will need to have your brain switched on, guard yourself from distractions, and allow half an hour to read it.
but it really is worth it for those wanting to engage with mission and really think about revitalising systematic theology with missiological insights from the margins.
here's a bit of a taste:
It is this method of practical theology--rooted in experience and practice, nourished by the Christian Tradition and moving to a more faithful practice in an unending spiral--that a systematic theology with a “missiological imagination” will employ. Theology will have as its starting point the life of the Christian community as it strives to discern what God is doing in human history and how the church might be the sign and instrument of that saving presence. In this way theology will regain its role as servant of the church as it engages in mission. Like the church that does not exist for its own sake but for the sake of the Reign of God, so theology will be done not for its own sake but in order better to preach, serve and witness to God’s Reign and the saving presence of its Lord.
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