Stewards of God's Delight: Becoming Priests of the New Creation

by Mark Clavier, Barry Morgan (Foreword by)

Overview

"The world is our parish and all her creatures our congregation." Based on talks given to ordinands in Wales, this book presents the ministry as responding to God's call to be priestly stewards of creation and to participate in the blossoming of the new creation. Clavier engages with Scripture and people such as Augustine, Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, and Rowan Williams to portray the whole ministry of God's people as being animated by the generosity, freedom, delight, and love of God. Our understanding of the ministry must break free from managerial philosophy and business know-how to recapture an approach to ministry that seeks to delight in God, neighbors, and all of creation in order to reveal the depth of God's love to a world increasingly immersed in mass consumption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498225441
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	116
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mark Clavier is Acting Principal and Dean of Residential Training at St. Michael's Theological College in Llandaff, Wales, and Lecturer in Theology at Cardiff University. He served for over fifteen years in churches in Maryland, North Carolina and England. He is the author of Rescuing the Church from Consumerism and Eloquent Wisdom: Theology, Cosmology and Delight in the Theology of Augustine of Hippo.

Table of Contents

Foreword Barry Morgan ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

1 Your Ministry and the Gift of Creation 1

2 Your Ministry and the Generosity of the Trinity 16

3 Your Ministry and the Renewal of Creation 32

4 Your Ministry and God's Immeasurable Delight 48

5 Your Ministry and the Love of God 66

6 Schools of Love, Schools of Delight 82

Bibliography 97