Church Planting in the Secular West : Learning from the European Experience.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by John R. Franke -- Introduction -- 1. Church Planting and Its Reasons -- 1.1. The Roots of Church Planting -- 1.2. The Classic Paradigm: A Three-Stage Process -- 1.2.1. Medieval Period -- 1.2.2. Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) -- 1.2.3. Gustav Warneck (1834-1910) -- 1.2.4. Joseph Schmidlin (1876-1944) -- 1.2.5. Pierre Charles (1883-1954) -- 1.2.6. Recent Catholic Documents -- 1.2.7. Conclusion -- 1.3. Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as an Instrument of Evangelization -- 1.3.1. From the Planting of the Church to the Planting of Churches -- 1.3.2. A Modern Movement -- 1.3.3. Organic Growth -- 1.3.4. Scientific Approach -- 1.3.5. Conclusion -- 1.4. Late-Modern Evangelical Paradigm: Church Planting as Innovation -- 1.4.1. The Introduction of Evangelical Church Planting in Modern Europe -- 1.4.2. The DAWN Story -- 1.4.3. Fresh Expressions of Church -- 1.5. Three Motives behind Church Planting in Europe -- 2. Planting Better Churches -- 2.1. "Mission" and "Confession" -- 2.2. Terminology -- 2.2.1. Sectarian Church Planting -- 2.2.2. Denominational Church Planting -- 2.2.3. Confessional Church Planting -- 2.3. Christendom Divided -- 2.3.1. "Making a New Church" -- 2.3.2. Confessionalization -- 2.4. Historical Examples of Confessional Church Planting in Europe -- 2.4.1. Territorial and Voluntary Christianity -- 2.4.2. Anabaptists in the Sixteenth Century -- 2.4.3. Baptists in the Seventeenth Century -- 2.4.4. Pietists and Moravians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2.4.5. Methodists in the Eighteenth Century -- 2.4.6. Baptism and Methodism in Europe during the Nineteenth Century -- 2.4.7. Characteristics of Free Church Planting in Europe -- 2.5. Missiological Reflections -- 2.5.1. Church and Mission: Undermining the Idea of a Christian Nation.

2.5.2. Church and Proselytism: An Ambiguous Analysis -- 2.5.3. Church and Kingdom: Planting Socially Engaged Churches -- 2.5.4. Church and Cultural Transformation: Resisting Completeness -- 2.5.5. Church and World: From Revival to Mission -- 2.5.6. The Unity of the Church and Mission: Expressing a Desire for Visible Unity -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. Planting More Churches -- 3.1. Defining Growth -- 3.2. The Missiological Framework -- 3.2.1. Church Growth Theory and Church Planting -- 3.2.2. Is Growth the Purpose of Mission? -- 3.2.3. Pragmatism -- 3.2.4. Conclusion -- 3.3. The Logic of Church Growth Theory -- 3.3.1. Giving Depth to Popular Claims -- 3.3.2. Four Reasons Why Church Planting Furthers Church Growth -- 3.3.3. Religious Market Theory -- 3.4. Evaluating Religious Market Theory on Three Levels -- 3.4.1. Micro-Level: The Rational Actor -- 3.4.2. Meso-Level: Competing Religious Organizations -- 3.4.3. Macro-Level: Religious Markets and the Religious Economy -- 3.4.4. Some Conclusions for Church Planting -- 3.5. Empirical Evidence -- 3.5.1. What Is "Growth" in Church Growth Theory? -- 3.5.2. How to Measure Growth? -- 3.5.3. Research vs. "Mobilization Rhetoric" -- 3.5.4. Evidence from the United States -- 3.5.5. General Conversion Data in Europe -- 3.5.6. Church Planting Evidence from Europe -- 3.5.7. Conclusions -- 3.6. Conclusions -- 4. Planting New Churches -- 4.1. Crisis and Renewal -- 4.2. The Complexity of the Task -- 4.2.1. The Many Challenges of the "Post"-Age -- 4.2.2. More Church or Less Church? -- 4.2.3. Conclusions -- 4.3. Structures of Expectation -- 4.3.1. No More Models -- 4.3.2. Confessional Control -- 4.3.3. Enabling the Process of Church Formation -- 4.3.4. Conclusions -- 4.4. Three Biotopes of Renewal -- 4.4.1. Free Havens -- 4.4.2. Laboratories -- 4.4.3. Incubators -- 4.4.4. Conclusions.

4.5. Church Planting as an Instrument of Renewal -- 5. In Defense of Church Planting in Europe -- 5.1. Justifications of Church Planting -- 5.2. Biblical Arguments for Church Planting in Europe -- 5.2.1. Church Planting in the New Testament -- 5.2.2. Sheep Beget Sheep: The Organic Character of the Church -- 5.2.3. All People Groups -- 5.2.4. Conclusions -- 5.3. Church Planting as a Theo-Logical Consequence -- 5.3.1. Confessional Arguments -- 5.3.2. Missiological and Ecclesiological Arguments -- 5.3.3. Conclusions -- 5.4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index.

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