Michael John McCoy

• BA (Hons), MTh, DPS
• Programme Developer at Theological Education by Extension College, Haddon, Gauteng, South Africa

The purpose of this book is to engage challenging issues that are called into question during ministerial training. This is a volume presenting eleven contested issues that attend to concerns related to structures, processes, knowledge and practices within theological education. Contributors offer keen insights about how to think differently and mo...

To answer the question of the title of this article, the words ‘community’, ‘postmodern’, ‘mission’ and ‘paradigm’ are examined in turn and defined. The central place of the ‘local church’ in contemporary missiology is discussed, and the need for a missional and communitarian ecclesiology is argued with positive but critical reference to the approa...

N A seminal article written more than twenty years ago, South African missiologist David Bosch lamented that little attention was give n to missiology - the formal study of mission - in traditional programmes of theological education (Bosch 1982). The theological curriculum in Western Europe was t ypically arranged into four "streams": biblical, hi...

Thesis (Th. M.)--University of South Africa, 1993. Microreproduction Includes bibliographical references.