The missional church and denominations : helping congregations develop a missional identity / [manuscript] : edited by Craig Van Gelder. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008. - x, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Missional church series . - Missional church series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Engaging the missional church conversation -- A missional engagement with denominations and denominationalism -- An ecclesiastical geno-project : unpacking the DNA of denominations and denominationalism / Craig Van Gelder -- Living in the city, journeying outside the gate : a missional approach to polity / David G. Forney -- Reframing denominations from a missional perspective / Alan J. Roxburgh -- The challenge of developing missional denominational agencies and the implications for leadership / Marion Wyvetta Bullock -- A missional reframing of ecclesiology and polity for specific denominations -- A more true "domestic and foreign missionary society" : toward a missional polity for the Episcopal Church / Dwight Zscheile -- Missional DNA of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America / Daniel R. Anderson -- Missional ordered ministry in the Evangelical Covenant Church : moving toward apostolic imagination / Kyle J.A. Small -- Missional renewal : an ecclesiology and polity proposal for the Baptist General Conference / Todd Hobart -- The story of one denomination seeking to become missional -- Insights into becoming a missional denomination : the Reformed Church in America / Wesley Granberg-Michaelson.

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